Ight so let's start off by saying peace and glory to the indie web.
By that i refer to the relatively large but unknown cluster of public facing websites made by plebs like you and me.
In 2026 the average mainstream website is grey, repetitive, standardised, approved:
not a fun spectacle for who either misses the early 2000's or simply prefers abit more art thrown around.
IndieWeb sites are a group of websites that are either living fossils or are modern attempts to make the world abit brighter each day.

One problem: in 2026 (ik this number gets repeated alot here) the grand majority of these endpoints is either explicitly closed down (yet 'active'), or offline.
Either a 404 error, or a Bad Gateway, or it literally doesn't exist anymore.
Hell, one such site, weirdwidewebring.net (do not join) just redirects to an indian gambling site LOL.

My question is: webmasters and sysops, why do yall not maintain your sites???
Yall out there really doing all this work to set up such systems, which are beautiful in my opinion btw, and then abandon them all of a sudden?
Can't yall just like, give ownership of the ring to someone else? Lmao

BTW: kudos to Hotline Webring and IndieWeb Webring for being the 2 best and most important indie webrings still active!

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk