In my newfound zeal for the indie web, I joined the IndieWeb Webring. You can see my version of it at the bottom of the page. You get some code to copy and paste into your site, but as I soon discovered, the presentation can be whatever you imagine it to be. I wanted to make mine obvious but also fit in with the Newsonaut style. Going from site to site on the ring, I found all manner of implementation. Some were big and bold, others were tiny or hidden in an accordion. Some were part of a site interface that was almost entirely inscrutable. And then there were some that I swear were missing entirely. Are you allowed to do break the ring? Shouldn’t you get kicked off for doing that? Also, it seems a bit like cheating if you make the next site in the ring open in a new tab. Is it because they're hoping visitors will stay on their site longer? I’m assuming that people who choose to be part of the IndieWeb Webring must be at least a bit tech savvy, given the requirement that you must use…
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