>>1082398
>Julay was pretty open who they allowed when board creation was enabled.
For a few months, then they closed board creation and reversed course completely and deleted a bunch of boards going back to just being a retarded /cow/ site.
>Anoncafe was quite selective but relaxed as long as you don't make a bunker from other webring site or a porn board.
Plenty of sites while 8kun was down were a lot more open to accepting boards, but most of it was in the context of everyone "bunkering" down in the collapse of 8chan prime. I would not classify that as they trying to emulate 8chan as a concept.
And Anoncafe was actually pretty picky and banned r9k basically just because of a single autist that was targeting the board maliciously.
>In general webring was "make your own site" instead of "make your own board", so it's safe to say the project as a whole wanted to be the next 8chan
This behavior didn't continue outside of the limited scope of the 8-10 months when 8chan didn't exist. And once 8kun and this site were spun up webring sites only became more selective. Your narrative simply doesn't track.
>>1082404
>Anyone saying that the webring wasn't an attempt to be an evolution on the 8chan concept is kidding themselves.
You're just a retard. The "webring" is a list of links to websites. It isn't federation, it's literally just an list of hyperlinks. Maybe complete retards thought that it was the "evolution" of 8chan, but anyone that understands the basics of this shit obviously knew how retarded it really was.
>>1082418
>The webring was a survival mechanism that could be repurposed into a mutually beneficial tool.
This, it's just some shitty feature that was useful when everyone was scrambling around making websites after 8chan prime went to shit.