Interesting thread, Dan. Although we won't profess to understand all the nuances of your comments, what you say seems to make sense in broad terms. Hopefully, Bluesky is paying attention to your worthwhile recommendations. | 🦋 | 🧵 1/8
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That said, we've found Bluesky feeds as they are currently constituted meet our admittedly modest requirements (see last post of thread for example). With one significant exception, however: the inability to optionally configure some sort of alert when something new appears in the feed. | 🦋 | 🧵 2/8
Checking any feed for new stuff has to be initiated manually one way or another. Regardless of how easy or convenient that is, it is still really just a matter of time before even this conscious act becomes too much trouble and/or gets forgotten and the feed falls off the mental table. | 🦋 | 🧵 3/8
If we could configure an alert — similar to the one where we're tagged in a post, for example — that would be great. That would draw feed subscribers' attention back to the feed when there's actually something new to see. | 🦋 | 🧵 4/8
In effect, it enables the feed to be monitored passively rather than actively. If Bluesky can do just this one thing, we'd be good for a while, at least. The last post in this thread has an example of one of the feeds we manage, BluFly. | 🦋 | 🧵 5/8
We speak of it as being 'double curated': our curation is by identifying and vetting Trusted Contributors (TC). In turn, the TC's curate their posts by adding an 'Emojitag' (specifically 🛩️ in BluFly’s case) to signal whether their post should be in the feed, or not. It's really simple. | 🦋 | 🧵 6/8
Moreover, rather than getting bogged down with ranking, we simply run with the default reverse chronological order — most recent post at the top. We assert the half-life of interest in *any* of our posts is, say, no more than a day or so. We suspect this is also the case more generally. | 🦋 | 🧵 7/8
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