I spend most of my time on the internet on the same webpages:

• Reddit
• YouTube
• Twitch

Apart from searching for shit, that's basically it [0]. Even if I start counting websites I visit occasionally, the list of websites remains manageable - a stark contrast to the idea that the web is decentralized and full of wonders of things to explore.

Some people are trying to revive the old days of the internet by creating personalized websites and creating webrings, the sites of a webring link to another. However, if you actually take the time to explore these websites, there is one theme which a lot of them have in common:

The websites are dead.

Maybe I have yet to find a super active webring with lots of interesting content. But the few webrings I am aware of either

• constantly change, as a lot of websites come and go, never staying online for too long,
• are unmaintained such that a lot of links from the webrings point onto websites with invalid domains, or
• contain websites which have not been updated within the last year.

This realization made me a bit sad, and it also was a big drive for me to fix up my shit and push some updates onto my sites. The content doesn't even have to be engaging; it's just nice to see people doing their own thing at their own little corner of the internet. I feel like that's what the internet is (or at least used to be) about, and maybe I'm in the minority here, but I'd like it to remain that way.