About LinkRing

Hi, I'm Keith, and I made this! I love the internet. Not the algorithmic feeds and engagement metrics version (although I spend a lot of time there), but the real internet. The one made of personal websites, weird blogs, hand-curated link collections, and communities built around shared curiosity rather than being mad online all the time.

Links are the original social feature. Before likes, before shares, before retweets ... there were links. Someone found something interesting and said "hey, check this out." That simple act of pointing to something you love and sharing it with others is still the most human thing we do online.

How is this different from every other link list or tree site? Your link lists and webrings aren't stored on our servers — they live on your atmosphere account (the same one you use for bluesky). This means:

You own your data. Not "you own it but we keep it in a database and sell ads against it", you actually, literally own it. If LinkRing disappeared tomorrow, your links would still be there.

Your links are portable. Any other app that reads atmosphere accounts can read them. No lock-in, no export buttons, it's just there.

It's open. The list format is published and documented. Anyone can build tools that work with it. I don't really expect anyone to, but you can!

Webrings — remember those? Circular collections of websites linked together, each pointing to the next. They were how I discovered new corners of the internet before search engines got good (and then got bad). My personal site was in like 20 of them. They've gotta come back, because discovery through human curation beats discovery through algorithms.

What LinkRing stores (not much)

Your links live on your atmosphere account, not here. But we do have a database, so here's exactly what's in it:

• Login sessions — When you sign in, we store a session token so you stay logged in. Log out and it's gone.
• A cache of public lists — For the Explore page, we keep a copy of public lists so pages load fast. Delete a list and the copy goes too.
• Link preview metadata — When we fetch a link's title, description, and image, we cache it so pages load faster.

That's it. None of this is required to access your links. If this site vanished, your links wouldn't. Here's the code to fetch them yourself.

This is a small project built with love. If you find a bug, have a suggestion, or just want to say hi, I'd love to hear from you.

Now go make some links for me to collect 🖇️!