Joe
onemahon.bsky.social
Joe
@onemahon.bsky.social
mobile dev | ice hockey | music nerd | online autonomy advocate

Boston, MA
Maybe someone will come along and create an LLM that can convert a description of some content into whatever technical guts are needed to deploy a new custom channel. Seems like a pretty viable & high potential QoL tool, particularly on a platform that's gaining steam quickly!
December 7, 2024 at 1:12 AM
FWIW, it looks like the protocol supports language filtering, so that's definitely a possible filtering option! -
docs.bsky.app/docs/starter...

(not region, tho - probably harder to use that without privacy concerns about users' IP info)

But yeah, not super accessible without a lot of overhead.
Custom Feeds | Bluesky
Custom feeds, or feed generators, are services that provide custom algorithms to users through the AT Protocol. This allows users to choose their own timelines, whether it's an algorithmic For You pag...
docs.bsky.app
December 7, 2024 at 1:12 AM
(Also, hi Greg! Hope you're keeping well!)
December 6, 2024 at 7:09 PM
What kind of channel would you subscribe to, if you could wave a magic wand and have it exist?

A friend introduced me to one for AndroidDev and it seems to be about 80% on-topic: bsky.app/profile/did:...
December 6, 2024 at 7:08 PM
I'm hopeful, though, that the existence of the customizability in the platform will gradually attract curators willing to go through the effort, and developers to improve the amount of ease of customization.
December 6, 2024 at 7:06 PM
I'm still learning about bsky, admittedly, but it seems like custom feeds are pretty flexible, and might have some promising ability to hone in on what you're describing - www.southernfriedscience.com/a-quick-and-...

But the problem is they seem ridiculously complicated to set up 😅
A quick and dirty guide to making custom feeds on Bluesky
So, you’ve made it! The remnants of science twitter have at last begun to coalesce around a new microblogging platformed owned by questionable individuals with inadequate content moderation t…
www.southernfriedscience.com
December 6, 2024 at 7:05 PM