Back in the day the best way to find cool sites when you were on a cool site was to click next in the webring. In this age of ailing search engines and confidently incorrect AI, it is time for the webring to make a comeback.

This person has given his the code to get started: Webring

    • maegul (he/they)
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      5 months ago

      I’m aware of it (and while not being super enthused about it, I can my personal interest growing over time as the internet keeps tracking the way it is).

      But how does it help with a page recommendation system? Is there a strong culture of that sort of thing on Gemini?

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        5 months ago

        in gemini you typically find pages using Antenna (gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/) here you would find different blog all across gemini. also you could go to bbs(gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/) to discuss stuff of variety of range.

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      5 months ago

      Man, their website is pretty off-putting. Where’s the get-started/dive-in type page? How do I use the thing?