Meet Wander, a StumbleUpon-inspired tool for discovering the ‘small web’
Developer Susam Pal has launched Wander, an open-source, self-hosted tool designed to help users discover independent websites. Inspired by StumbleUpon and webrings, the project aims to foster a more human-centric web experience outside of AI-dominated search engines.
Why it matters
It represents a growing grassroots movement to decentralize the internet and preserve the 'small web' against the homogenization of AI-driven search results.
As search becomes increasingly dominated by AI summaries and commercial content, people are experimenting and coming up with ways to make the web feel more human like it used to, building everything from small web search engines to decentralized social networks .
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