a decentralized approach to webrings

in case you don't know, webrings are teeny tiny curated directories of websites sorted by topic, they have been around before search engines went into mainstream

however, webrings are most likely centralized and once they shut down, you can lost connection with your online neighborhood

webrings are meant to decentralize website discovery and we could improve that by creating a wide self-curated directory of personal websites

and once the mainstream webring shuts down, one of the webmasters starts rehosting it and websites will stay connected

sound cool, but uhhh... how?

we could use atproto repositories to place website data and/or webring data in their respective records

the webring data points to the active webring service with a valid did:web identifier, which is kinda identical to bluesky's feed generators

on the other hand, website data can hold as much more information about it or it's owner as possible! for example:

social media links

last.fm/listenbrainz/teal.fm scrobbles

your neocities profile page (most webrings have neocities sites or use neocities as their host)

gpg public key

is there any chance that you will make a ref implementation of it?

maybe... i am not sure tho