2 ms·
Taking a step back to before search engines were the main driver for finding content online, who remembers webrings? Is there a way to update that idea of webs
by wlesieutre 7y ago
Taking a step back to before search engines were the main driver for finding content online, who remembers webrings?
Is there a way to update that idea of websites deliberately recommending each other, but without having it be an upvote/like based popularity contest driven by an enormous anonymous mob? It needs to avoid both easy to manipulate crowd voting like reddit and the SEO spam attacks that PageRank has been targeted by.
Some way to say "I value recommendations by X person," or even give individual people weight in particular types of content and not others?
- myself248 7y agoI think this is the most promising approach. I value ratings by X person because they've never upvoted spam. I devalue ratings by Y person because they're a spam shill, and everyone associated with Y person because they're all a hive of spammers. And then https://xkcd.com/810/ https://xkcd.com/810/ . It would devolve into semi-isolated enclaves of interconnected inter-trusting users, but as you discover them, you could "trust their trust" and instantly include their enclave by reference. Which I think is a good thing -- you'd find a community that's all about some topic, and instantly benefit from their years of content gathering.
- jefftk 7y ago> who remembers webrings? I recently configured openring [1] and am liking it a lot. Example of one of my pages with it [2] [1] https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/openring https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/openring [2] https://www.jefftk.com/p/adventures-in-upstreaming https://www.jefftk.com/p/adventures-in-upstreaming scroll down to "Recent posts on blogs I like"