A quick and dirty guide to making custom feeds on Bluesky

Good intro to Bluesky custom feeds on the "Skyfeed ... third party app that helps you manage and organize you Bluesky experience. Within Skyfeed is a custom Feed Builder", which tbh is probably the only reason to use Skyfeed - the interface takes some getting used to.

By the time I read this I'd already created my first custom feed using blueskyfeedcreator.com, which offers some features - eg:

• ex/in-clusion of simple search terms,
• language filtering,
• customising by post type (eg exclude replies, or include only posts with gifs), etc.
• restrict to specific users or lists of users
• feed admins, who can approve posts (if you set "require approval") on some or all posts
• automoderator, where you write rules in YAML format

Skyfeed seems to offer most if not all of the above, plus:

• apply different ranking and sorting algorithms - the author here uses "the Hacker News ranking algorithm, a very basic ranking systems which helps surface the most popular posts while still keeping this generally chronological."
• regular expressions (regex), with which "you can make some very sophisticated algorithms for screening posts... old school Boolean operators ... Here’s a good cheat sheet "