From Feeds to Trails
To design the future of social media, rethink the interface before the algorithm.
BlueFacts: Bluesky Trends and Insights
BlueFacts is your resource for all things Bluesky. You can find trends and insights about users, posts, videos, feeds and more.
Skylight
Want to actually see the people you follow? Done. Want to decide what shows up in your feed, and what doesn't? Easy. A social app where your interests come first.
(PDF) The Loop and Reasons to Break It: Investigating Infinite Scrolling Behaviour in Social Media Applications and Reasons to Stop
PDF | Today's social media (SM) platforms are toolkits consisting of features with different use cases, some strongly related to habitual and regretful... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
Algorithmic choice - Bluesky
Your attention is an invaluable resource. We want a future where you control what you see on social media.
A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed | TechCrunch
HyperTexting's new app aims to make the open web feel more like social media by turning websites, blogs, newsletters, and podcasts into a scrollable feed, while also making it easier to post to your own website.
A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed | TechCrunch
HyperTexting's new app aims to make the open web feel more like social media by turning websites, blogs, newsletters, and podcasts into a scrollable feed, while also making it easier to post to your own website.
blogs.social — Discover the open web
Discover and follow blogs across Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and the open social web.
Sources on social media: Information context collapse and volume of content as predictors of source blindness - George Pearson, 2021
Although social media has become a primary news platform, the effects of social media features on users’ information processing remains under-explored. This stu...
Big improvements to @skyreader.app making it more social! Articles you share are now published as a @standard.site linkblog. Follow Skyreader linkblogs in any @standard.site reader (or traditional RSS reader!) Finding your people in Skyreader is also now much improved. Let me know what you think!
Skyreader update - Linkblogs, standard.site, and discussions
skyreader-dev.leaflet.pub🧵 On social media, we feel trapped in “filter bubbles” and “echo chambers.” Often, we see this as a problem with the algorithm. Our new essay argues the problem is the feed interface itself: it constrains our movement—all we can do is scroll. We lay out an alternative vision:
From Feeds to Trails
leaflet.pubToday's @skyreader.app update improves the discussion for every article you read. - commentary across bluesky, @semble.so, and @margin.at - semble collections the article appears in - semble typed connections to other articles with one-tap save to read later
this is my preferred pattern for atmosphere apps that are wanting to ”reuse” or “integrate” the bluesky social graph/lexicon don’t make me automatically follow everyone i follow on bluesky, but make it easy to find/discover/import my bluesky social graph (or other social graphs) on my own terms
dame
yeah i really like this, though it would be nice to be able to quickly “discover” users you follow on bluesky who also are active on grain and quickly follow them @chadtmiller.com
New day, new product on the Atmosphere. Launching glean.at a Social RSS Reader on @atproto.com. What does it mean? - Your RSS reader becomes connected to your social graph. - See what people like you read, like or annotate - Discover feeds or articles you wouldn't have known before
Glean
glean.atI have just switched to W social...more news on that to come...
W Social
Welcome to W, Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu). Staff writer at The Atlantic, author of Gulag, Iron Curtain, Red Famine and Autocracy Inc. One of the most important voices on democracy in Europe.
