Making a feed is really easy
Custom Feeds Are Not Communities — A Design Theory of Feeds and Commons - Nightflight
Beginning I learned something from Hamakaze no Ryodan, who has deep expertise in creating Bluesky custom feeds. Feeds collect posts without the poster's co…
Serving the For You Feed - AT Protocol
How the maintainer of the popular For You feed serves it from their living room!
Feed Logic and the Failure to Thrive
Two disquieting works of fiction I encountered this spring feature the same menacing figure: a young girl that refuses to eat. In Ben Lerner’s novel Transcription (2026), doctors inform a couple that their waifish, picky-eating daughter is, in fact, “failing to thrive,” suffering from ARFID (avoidant/restrictive food
The Feed Is Dying
The way we’ve been reading the web for the last ten years is changing. You might be shocked, but you shouldn’t be.
The Feed is the Product: Why We Stay in Walled Gardens, and Why We Might Finally Leave for the Open Social Web - Zsolt's pckt blog
We have known this for years. We have known that the major platforms are bad for our attention, our sleep, our politics, our children, and our sense of reality....
Feeds are Not Fit for Gardening — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho
—at least, in their current instantiations with RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, etc.
The big missing piece is a first class feed lexicon that specifies the logic for how it selects content, the nature of its ordering/rendering options, and the lexicons it selects from and is capable of rendering... and then the ability for clients to choose orders and lexicons to select from
Custom feeds are the singular theory of action for growing the open social web and reorienting distribution and monetization in the attention economy. I don't have all the answers, but the future of social is becoming clearer everyday. jshaked.leaflet.pub/3mhqtyaufyc26
Exploring the Frontier of Feeds - The Open Garden
jshaked.leaflet.pubMiss a day? Now your feed catches you up. Feed Pulse reads the posts your readers actually looked at, and writes a short daily front page for you - all through @cocore.dev's artisanal, farm-to-table AI inference ATProto co-op! Available *today* for all feeds.
