It must have been at least a year ago that I first noticed linkhut, and its flagship instance at ln.ht, appear on SourceHut, where it immediately caught my attention for its good taste in inspirations. Once upon a time, I had a Pinboard account, which is a similar concept, but I never used it for anything in the end. When I saw linkhut I had a similar experience: I signed up and played with it for a few minutes before moving on.
I’ve been rethinking my relationship social media lately, as some may have inferred from my unannounced disappearance from Mastodon.1 While reflecting on this again recently, in a stroke of belated inspiration I suddenly appreciated the appeal of tools like linkhut, especially alongside RSS feeds – signal-boosting stuff I read and found interesting.
The appeal of this reminds me of one of the major appeals of SoundCloud to me, back when I used it circa… 2013? That is: I could listen to the music that artists I liked were listening to, and that was amazing for discovering new music. Similarly, for those of you who enjoy my blog posts, and want to read the stuff I like reading, check out my linkhut feed. You can even subscribe to its RSS feed if you like. There isn’t much there today, but I will be filling it up with interesting articles I see and projects I find online.
I want to read your linkhut feed, too, but it’s pretty quiet there at the moment. If you find the idea interesting, sign up for an account or set up your own instance and start bookmarking stuff – and email me your feed so I can find some good stuff to subscribe to in my own feed reader.
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And simultaneous disappearance from BlueSky, though I imagine hardly anyone noticed given that I had only used it for a couple of weeks. When I set out to evaluate BlueSky for its merits from an OSS framing (findings: both surprisingly open and not open enough), I also took a moment to evaluate the social experience – and found it wanting. Then I realized that I also felt that way about Mastodon, and that was the end of that. ↩︎