It's done. I can't believe it's finally done. I've been working on this in mostly secret for so long, and I'm so excited to share it with y'all!
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@mttaggart Holy shit WEB RINGS! Fuck yeah!
@mttaggart This looks awesome! I'm one of the people who helped with the Xanadu Project that started way back in the mists of time...back...back...back to the 1960s. Eep! I'm ancient!
@mttaggart this sounds very interesting. I definitely will try it. But I want to say here that I don't think, any technical innovation, even the most genius one, will solve this problem. The fediverse, ringspace and many other such "things" are tools. We have certainly alteady demonstrated that we can use these tools within small circles of activists and people with good technical skills to create some "nice spaces" for us. But: we need to act as a society and that means laws.
Fun facts about this project:
- All hand coded (of course)
- Written in Rust (of course)
- Raw SQL instead of ORM
- Raw JS browser extension
- Took like four years off my life
@mttaggart BTW. https://soatok.blog/2025/12/17/the-revolution-will-not-make-the-hacker-news-front-page/#auxdata might help with PKI risks (still reading https://ringspace.net/protocol.html#threat-model as I toot this)
@mttaggart I really look forward to seeing how this goes.
@mttaggart Hey, cool idea, thanks for sharing! I like the identity and reputation concepts.
Seems like a lot rests on the Ring Server. Thoughts about reputation management in a world with a lot of competing Rings? eg, Assume folks start up many malicious rings, whose only purpose is to provide a veneer of legitimacy to malicious sites. Any mechanisms to delegitimize them?
