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Federated Webrings (blog.commune.sh)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In the glory days of web 1.0, social websites would prominently link out to their digital neighbors via lists known as webrings; magical doorways to an expansive hinterland of digital villages.

Let's envision what a truly federated chat like Matrix could do to improve the cross-connectivity of chat channels. Most of these features are already possible, they just haven't been implemented yet in a community-oriented client experience.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

forget all that we should just bring back web 1.0 webrings and domain cliques

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, it's weird that they talk about federated webrings, without actually suggesting federated webrings. I discuss it in passing here (and early in passing), calling it FedRing. It definitely seems doable as kind of plug-in to other services that is also a federated service - so you could jump from the sidebar in a Lemmy community or instance to a Mastodon account or channel.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

We can bring back the cozy vibes of the old web neighborhoods. Not by regressing to a bygone era, but by building the web one-and-a-half that should have been; a Web of the People.

Weirdly, a while back I wrote:

It is increasingly clear to me that a lot of directions Web 1.0 was evolving in were diverted or just killed off by Big Tech’s landgrab which built walled gardens. I see the Fediverse as a return to the idea of blogs (micro and macro), forums, etc but in a more natural progression to interoperability. This still isn’t perfect and there may be other early web ideas, like webrings, that improve discoverablity.

It's a pity they don't really talk about federated webrings and largely ignore the opportunities for webrings in the wider Fediverse instead focusing on Matrix and Discord.

And I was thinking we needed Web 2.0b, they are suggesting an early "fork" Web 1.5.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I want to be part of matrix but don't know where to start. Any retro-gaming matrix?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

As you are on here, the best place to start might be lemmy.world on Matrix. Or to jump straight to retro gaming, there are a few listed on matrixrooms.info.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Reminds me of Skyward Sword