Algorithmic Choice with Custom Feeds - Bluesky

Our implementation of algorithmic choice lets users customize one of the most important parts of their social media experience: their feed.

feeds.social — Minimalist Bluesky Client

Custom Feeds Are Not Communities — A Design Theory of Feeds and Commons - Nightflight

Bluesky Custom Feeds - Built By You

Design, deploy, and grow custom feeds of any complexity on Bluesky with Graze.social.

Bluesky Custom Feeds - Built By You

Design, deploy, and grow custom feeds of any complexity on Bluesky with Graze.social.

Understanding Decentralized Social Feed Curation on Mastodon

Amid rising concerns over moderation, algorithmic control, and platform governance on centralized social media, people are increasingly turning to decentralized alternatives like Mastodon to regain control over their feeds. This shift offers new opportunities to understand how people perceive and curate their feeds. We conducted a two-part study with 21 Mastodon users: first, interviews exploring how they perceive and manage their feeds; and second, a design probe study using BRAIDS.SOCIAL, a web-based feed curation prototype informed by the first part of our initial findings. We learned how seamful design can increase people's trust in algorithmic curation, and surfaced trade-offs people navigate between machine learning-based and rule-based filtering approaches. We also identify a core design tension in decentralized platforms: whether to support personalization through new applications or extensions layered atop existing ones.

NorthskySocial/indieapp

a Maintained Community fork of social-app with new features

How to find and create Bluesky feeds - and why they're so helpful

Bluesky's Feeds feature makes it easier to follow only the people and topics you want. Here's how to get started.

Paper Skygest: Personalized Academic Recommendations on Bluesky

We build, deploy, and evaluate Paper Skygest, a custom personalized social feed for scientific content posted by a user's network on Bluesky and the AT Protocol. We leverage a new capability on emerging decentralized social media platforms: the ability for anyone to build and deploy feeds for other users, to use just as they would a native platform-built feed. To our knowledge, Paper Skygest is the first and largest such continuously deployed personalized social media feed by academics, with over 50,000 weekly uses by over 1,000 daily active users, all organically acquired. First, we quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate Paper Skygest usage, showing that it has sustained usage and satisfies users; we further show adoption of Paper Skygest increases a user's interactions with posts about research, and how interaction rates change as a function of post order. Second, we share our full code and describe our system architecture, to support other academics in building and deploying such feeds sustainably. Third, we overview the potential of custom feeds such as Paper Skygest for studying algorithm designs, building for user agency, and running recommender system experiments with organic users without partnering with a centralized platform.

blacksky-algorithms/atproto

Blacksky fork of bluesky-social/atproto with AppView performance optimizations, caching, and community features

Building Your Own Feed: Getting Started

<Back to Bluesky How-To’s If you’ve been on Bluesky for a while, you are probably familiar with Feeds. Feeds are how you view content on the app. They range from the default Following (pos…