The level of control Bluesky gives users with custom feeds is simply incredible. I could recreate the Mastodon newsfeed without any coding whatsoever.

All I had to do was create a feed on Skyfeed that

That’s all I needed to do. Here is my tweaked version of this (no login necessary)..

JSON 
{
    "displayName": "📰News (Trending)",
    "blocks": [
        {
            "type": "input",
            "inputType": "list",
            "id": "aaao2rd2fwsmg",
            "": 86400,
            "listUri": "at://did:plc:kkf4naxqmweop7dv4l2iqqf5/app.bsky.graph.list/3jzmo456b6j2t"
        },
        {
            "type": "input",
            "inputType": "list",
            "id": "aaaknghipawwq",
            "listUri": "at://did:plc:kkf4naxqmweop7dv4l2iqqf5/app.bsky.graph.list/3kc3ye6hmsd2y",
            "historySeconds": 86400
        },
        {
            "type": "input",
            "inputType": "list",
            "id": "aaae7ioefxgno",
            "listUri": "at://did:plc:sbl65o3w4adma7vbmovhyciy/app.bsky.graph.list/3krtw4uufwc2u",
            "historySeconds": 86400
        },
        {
            "type": "remove",
            "subject": "labels",
            "value": null,
            "id": "aaapxkh2aihps",
            "labels": [
                "did:plc:bpkpvmwpd3nr2ry4btt55ack/ai-imagery"
            ]
        },
        {
            "type": "sort",
            "sortType": "hn",
            "id": "aaaortezvepki",
            "gravity": "1.8",
            "sortDirection": "desc"
        }
    ],
    "license": "EUPL-1.2"
}
  • ALostInquirer@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    Apart from the HackerNews sort, wouldn’t this also be feasible with a list on Mastodon/Akkoma/Misskey of news accounts (unofficial and official)?

    • airportlineOPMEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      Yes, but I could do this on my own without any coding, and use it directly within the app

      • ALostInquirer@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        I’m confused on your use of “but” here; are you aware you can do likewise within Mastodon (and in some more interesting ways, Misskey & its forks) and third-party apps without another tool (Skyfeed) or any coding? Regardless, I agree that custom feeds have a lot of potential, albeit I’ve not found many that demo it yet.

        • airportlineOPMEnglish
          2·
          7 months ago

          I guess I’m having trouble communicating why this excites me so much. I’m impressed I created to create a custom feed that I personally found useful, despite not knowing how to code. I’ll have to check out Misskey or Calckey later.

          • ALostInquirer@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            7 months ago

            Oh! Hey, it is cool! Sorry to have rained on that, it was a fault in how I was reading it more than the way you wrote it, I think