Why we built OpenLinq
Sometime in 2024, reading the internet stopped feeling good.
LinkedIn became a stream of AI-generated thought leadership. Twitter filled with engagement bait. Even newsletters — things people carefully wrote — started getting replaced by AI summaries of AI summaries.
The feeds got faster. The quality got worse. And somewhere in the middle, the experience of finding a genuinely great article — the kind you finish and immediately want to share — became rare.
OpenLinq is a response to that. It's a simple idea: a community where real people submit articles they actually read and found worth reading. No algorithm decides what you see. No AI generates content. The community votes, the best rises.
It's invite-only on purpose. Quality communities stay small before they scale. We'd rather have 100 readers who care than 10,000 who don't.
The rules (short version)
- ✓No AI-generated content. If you didn't read it, don't submit it.
- ✓No spam, no self-promotion disguised as sharing.
- ✓Assume good faith. Disagree with ideas, not people.
- ✓Earn reputation by submitting things people actually want to read.
Built by
OpenLinq is built and maintained by Malte Wagenbach. It's a side project built out of frustration with the current state of content feeds — and a belief that there's still a real audience for things worth reading.
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