After the TikTookay ban went into impact on Sunday, social community Bluesky launched a customized feed for movies on its platform. Now, Flipboard’s latest app, Surf, which is devoted to looking the open social internet and decentralized providers like Mastodon and Bluesky, is profiting from that transfer to introduce a video feed of its personal.
Initially, Surf’s video feed was a mixture of video posts on Bluesky’s “trending video” feed and people posts that included the hashtag #SkyTookay. The firm says it would quickly personalize its feed to the top consumer, too.
This will assist differentiate Surf’s video feed from Bluesky’s personal. It additionally represents the facility that comes from permitting third events to construct feeds for a social networking platform. Surf is at present in beta with a sign-up record obtainable for testers.
“This is simply the most recent instance of how customized feeds on the social internet can be utilized for all kinds of use circumstances — video sharing, photograph sharing, dialogue teams, messaging, and many others. — which were the unique area of the massive walled gardens,” Flipboard CEO Mike McCue advised TechCrunch through e mail. “We’re nonetheless early days however issues are shifting tremendous quick right here, particularly on AT Proto [the protocol that powers Bluesky.]”
To personalize the brand new Surf video feed, McCue stated the corporate will quickly add customers’ Bluesky Following timeline (which is simply one other customized feed) as a supply for the feed. This can also be filtered to indicate solely video posts. When this closing step is accomplished, the feed will show movies from the folks the customers themselves comply with.
After Bluesky on Sunday shipped its native customized video feed, which employs a brand new TikTok-style consumer interface, Surf adopted that design for its feed, as nicely. (Note: in case you’re not seeing the TikTok-style interface on Bluesky, attempt restarting your cell app just a few occasions.)
If you’re not ready to make use of Surf, which remains to be in non-public beta, you should use its feed immediately on Bluesky. Surf federated its new customized video feed to Blueksy the place it’s obtainable as one other native, customized feed choice.
McCue factors out that Surf itself can be utilized to make completely different sorts of video feeds, too.
For instance, he additionally constructed a “E-bookTookay” kind feed, which focuses on customers discussing books on video, just like TikTookay’s E-bookTookay group. This feed might be seen on each Surf and Bluesky.
To make this feed, McCue included all movies tagged with the hashtags #E-bookTookay and #BookSky.
However, as a result of these tags may exist on different apps in addition to Bluesky, once you use the feed on Surf itself, you’ll be capable of see movies from different providers like YouTube, Threads, and Mastodon, along with movies from Bluesky. That’s doable as a result of Surf permits customers to discover a number of social networks in its app, together with these powered by protocols like ActivityPub (utilized by Mastodon), the AT Protocol (utilized by Bluesky), and RSS.
