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- PAPER (L'ADN) — We love paper, and so do you. In 2025, you showed a keen interest in the return of print, particularly in its most artisanal forms. Take this article on the rise of zines, which explains why and how young people seeking alternative spaces are creating their own mini-magazines.
- AI (Ars Technica) — AI seems to have sparked a certain frustration in you. We gather this from the particular interest you showed in this rather radical and somewhat cathartic method for disabling AI-generated responses in Google and getting back a classic list of links: typing "give me the f****** links" into the search bar.
- COMMUNITY (The Verge) — Facing an increasingly fragmented Internet, you sought to build community this year… or rather "micro-community." This study on the proliferation of small digital spaces reveals a quest for more intimate and authentic places, with less AI and algorithms. We hope, modestly, that The 10 Links contribute to it.
- PLATFORMS (Business Insider) — Another year on the clock, but still relevant, with the same focus on the practices and habits of younger generations. Among the trends that caught your attention: Tumblr's return, attracting notably young people seeking to escape the social media giants.
- PLATFORMS (journalism.co.uk) — When it comes to social networks, we also gave significant space to decentralized initiatives that are freer and more independent. One example caught your attention: Bristol Cable's app, based on an open protocol and connected to Bluesky and Mastodon, designed as both a reading space and a social network.
- TOOLS (WIRED) — One thing's for sure: you love tools. So when it comes to independent tools, it's a clicking frenzy. Case in point with this guide listing alternatives, mostly European and more respectful of your privacy, to replace browsers, email clients and search engines.
- PAPER (Low-tech Magazine) — You've also asked yourselves big questions: What's more eco-friendly between printing a book and publishing articles online? This article from Low-tech Magazine provides some answers by recounting how the team "compressed" its publications through font and image optimization.
- DESIGN (It's Nice That) — Sometimes, in a selection of links, a topic becomes unexpectedly popular. In 2025, for example, it was this article that you overwhelmingly championed about the return of gothic aesthetics in graphic design: medieval typefaces, dark colors and menacing castles. A trend that symbolizes in many ways "a collective anxiety in the face of an opaque and unsettling Internet".
- INFLUENCE (Below the Fray) — Dua Lipa may well feature in your year-end music recaps, but she's also in your top 10 links. Not for her music this time, but for her literary interviews, broken down in this video that tells how the artist is reinventing an old format to make literature more accessible and less elitist.
- TOOLS (Freakpages) — In 2025, you clearly loved surprises, readily clicking on the most astonishing links. We're delighted about that. As proof of your taste for adventure, you evidently loved Freakpages, a site that offers a selection of Wikipedia pages on incongruous topics, chosen and voted by users to be featured on the homepage.
