12-17-2018, 04:29 PM
I really think webrings need to make a comeback. It's hard as fuck for a new website to gain exposure. A new site is literally drowned out in a sea of millions of more established websites. Yeah, you can do all of the SEO optimization stuff, search engine submissions, etc., but you're still competing with a lot of other people who are also doing all of that. And the deck is still stacked against you if your content is targeted for suppresion by search engine algorithms.
And of, course, everyone is trying to compete with giant social media sites that only want to allow independent websites to exist as adjuncts to their their own all-encompassing umbrella. Look at how mainstream news organizations have to publish their content in multiple special formats to cater to Faecesbook's and Goolag's proprietary standards.
To break big tech's stranglehold, people with common interests need to band together and create networks outside of big tech's sphere of influence -- networks that drive traffic to their independent websites rather than to Faecesbook and Goolag. Webrings are a primitive but effective early form of social networking that has been cast aside in favor of consolidating the networking aspect into a handful of centralized locii of control. Webring technology is so simple that no single company can dominate it because hosting a webring directory is just as easy as hosting a personal website.
And of, course, everyone is trying to compete with giant social media sites that only want to allow independent websites to exist as adjuncts to their their own all-encompassing umbrella. Look at how mainstream news organizations have to publish their content in multiple special formats to cater to Faecesbook's and Goolag's proprietary standards.
To break big tech's stranglehold, people with common interests need to band together and create networks outside of big tech's sphere of influence -- networks that drive traffic to their independent websites rather than to Faecesbook and Goolag. Webrings are a primitive but effective early form of social networking that has been cast aside in favor of consolidating the networking aspect into a handful of centralized locii of control. Webring technology is so simple that no single company can dominate it because hosting a webring directory is just as easy as hosting a personal website.
