Now you can opt out of having your posts shown to non-followers in the Discover feed. We know not everyone wants to go viral. Sometimes you're just posting for your followers. This is one of a few updates we're working on to give you more control over your experience and help you find your people.
Aug 27, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Bluesky now lets you ask not to go viral - Sensemaker
A new Discover opt-out makes distribution preference portable, but public posts stay public and other apps decide whether to honor it.
Meta will use your activity on other websites to personalize your feeds
You’ll still be able to opt out.
Follows & Replies by @mackuba.eu
Feed that shows all posts from people you follow and all their replies to anyone – kind of like in the original Following feed (though without reskeets). Excludes replies to you, to the same user, and replies made in your own threads. (See also the "Only Replies" and "Only Posts" versions.)
The Feed Is Fake
That “viral” song, movie, influencer, and celebrity drama you scrolled by recently was likely the result of a stealth marketing campaign.
[Draft] Follow anyone — Open Indie
I just wanna keep track of people I care for and find interesting. The type of feed(s) available for subscription (blog, micro-blog, chat...
Can something be private yet discoverable? — Index Network
Index shifts discovery from performance to presence, where builders and thinkers don't need to broadcast themselves to be found—just express what they're looking for.
Last week, the Bluesky app shipped a content visibility declaration setting to let people opt out of having their posts appear in feeds like Discover. How your app might use that setting is all about intent and reach. bsky.network/blog/content-visibility-decla…
Using the Content Visibility Declaration
bsky.networkYup you see all the aircraft in the area.
Faine Greenwood
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people love the For You feed, and it shows in the numbers. it generates around 4% of post views inside feeds on Bluesky. that's amazing especially because it's operated by one dev, @spacecowboy17.bsky.social given its popularity, we've decided to give it a bump in visibility on the feeds page.
instead of letting these hide in my nodes or the @graze.social discord, i finally made a leaflet in my blog for feeds! you can comment here or in leaflet with requests, but i'll try to just add as i help folks out too.
Making Feeds: Custom Logic Requests
feeds.byarielm.fyiYou should now see less unwanted adult content in your For You feed.
Reducing "show less like this" by 11% with NSFW filtering
blog.foryou.club@toni.bsky.team @alexbenzer.com i think yall need to wrestle with the fact that the app’s most distinctive feature (“custom feeds”) is something only (relative) nerds use and benefit from. normal people won’t swipe between many algorithms or whatever. have a look at past designs for “communities”
