ideas, work and experiments
Making a feed is really easy
Feeds are Not Fit for Gardening — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho
—at least, in their current instantiations with RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, etc.
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…
Setting up Bossett's BlueSky Feed Generator
I have build a small framework for Bluesky feeds that allows a developer to quickly spin up new feeds by cloning a single source file and making very minor tweaks. It allows for arbitrary code to be run to create filters, manipulate lists, etc.; and has a number of helper
Exploring the Frontier of Feeds - The Open Garden
Reorienting distribution and monetization in the attention economy.
Exploring the Frontier of Feeds - The Open Garden
Reorienting distribution and monetization in the attention economy.
Serving the For You Feed - AT Protocol
How the maintainer of the popular For You feed serves it from their living room!
Middleware for Feed Recommendation in Practice: How Feed Creators Build, Maintain, and Sustain Custom Feeds on Bluesky
Scholars have long proposed third-party middleware as an alternative to centralized algorithmic feeds: feeds built and distributed by independent feed creators. This vision saw no large-scale instantiation until Bluesky, a decentralized microblogging platform, introduced custom feeds in 2023. Although central to the middleware ecosystem, we know little about how feed creators understand their role, build feeds, and sustain them. Through interviews with n = 26 feed creators and third-party developers of feed-building tools, and analysis of n = 88,302 custom feeds, we identify two creator orientations---utility-providing and community-building. Additionally, creators struggle to maintain feeds that fully realize middleware ideals: they lack granular interaction data, receive little feedback, and lack technical expertise to act on either. Finally, creators sustain their feeds as unpaid hobbyists with little platform support and are divided on whether to monetize beyond covering costs. We conclude with design and policy implications for strengthening the middleware feed ecosystem.
A Bluesky feed for one · Adam Wiggins
I built a custom feed for Bluesky that trains a model on my past interactions. Here's what I learned about RecSys and social media feeds generally.
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....
Misreading as Foraging: How Systems Get Used for Things They Weren't Made For - Astral's Blog
Bluesky Custom Feeds - Built By You
Design, deploy, and grow custom feeds of any complexity on Bluesky with Graze.social.
Building your own algorithm on Bluesky and AT Protocol with Graze
Bluesky Custom Feeds - Built By You
Design, deploy, and grow custom feeds of any complexity on Bluesky with Graze.social.
