Joe

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!

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...

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.

(Also, hi Greg! Hope you're keeping well!)

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:...

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.

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…

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 😅

YouTube video by N-O-D-E Make it Yourself: 1000 Useful Things to Make

Just found one of the coolest maker resources I've ever seen:
youtu.be/TSFJ2OH1PQA

makeityourself.org - while it's obviously not fully comprehensive, what an awesome format to index a ton of miscellaneous ideas!

Hi Bluesky! Joe here - mobile dev, ice hockey-er, choral singer, Bostonian. Nice to meet you!

I probably won't use this account too much, but wanted to have it handy to connect with folks as more people move over here.

Feel free to reach out!