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And by *just volunteering*, we'll grant you an exclusive @rpg.actor Uncle Sam hat, so you can proudly roam about showing your civic virtue

Volunteer form complete with an uncle sam hat from @rpg.actor

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But that's not all! We're partnering with a ton of folks to show how here, in the atmosphere, it's different. Create a @smokesignal.events event to host a watch party on @stream.place, so you and your friends can all celebrate and/or comiserate together

Hosting a watch party option on midterms site

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And finally, the most exciting tab - Join In! The Atmosphere is a participant sport - that's why we're inviting *you* to curate the feeds. With our recent collaborators feature, we've made it so anyone can suggest, edit, alter, and/or curate the algorithm. Now, you can join in for the midterms.

Join in tab showing choices you can make to help run the midterms

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Or, if you're a real sicko, you can use Everything Everywhere All At Once mode to watch the full firehose of events streaming in via one unwieldy, nightmarish megafeed. Viewer discretion is advised.

50+ feeds updating in real time as a massive scroll

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The live feeds tab gives you quick access for all state level results, and you can see the volunteers that have signed up to moderate and curate the feeds. The map lights up as posts arrive in real time across the atmosphere.

Photo of the live feeds tab on the left showing a US map alight, center content from the atmosphere and right some summarizations

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We've got three main pages - trends, live feeds, and join in. Trends uses @cocore.dev to summarize the days activity across all the feeds, and uses our existing scoring to track sentiment across all the posts in real time. If you want to help here, donate your co/core tokens to improve the results.

The Trends tab as a departures board. A list of races down the left, each with a state code, headline, momentum tally and volume sparkline, Virginia selected and inverted. On the right, the open race's day: "Warner endorsements and VA-06 activity add to Virginia's campaign mix", tagged "machine-written · can be wrong", with a summary paragraph.

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Graze Social @graze.social · 05/10/2026

We've been hard at work behind the scenes the last few weeks to prepare for this - a 52-feed deep dive on the state of the election, run by *you*, the community that depends on this information. We've also partnered with some great folks in the ecosystem. Let's take a quick tour.

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🎮 🎉 As of today, Graze is multiplayer. Add collaborators to help you with your feeds across multiple layers of responsibility. Available now for all users!

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Graze Social @graze.social · 24/09/2026

Found it — nothing broken on our end. Your feed builder has a green Users block set to Include with only tidymalism.bsky.social in it. Every block has to match the same post, so that cuts the whole feed down to that one account. Delete it or switch it to Exclude — image shows which block.

Screenshot of the Graze feed builder for the feed "Cleaning (in progress)", with notes alongside it. The builder shows two stacked blocks called Users. The upper one is green, its dropdown reads "Include", and it holds a single account: tidymalism.bsky.social. A red outline rings that dropdown, labelled "Change this". The lower block is red, its dropdown reads "Exclude", and it lists blocked accounts including acarsdrama-a11y.bsky.social and maxrooter.bsky.social. A header reads "Returning 0 posts — no new matches since Sep 21". The notes explain that Include means a post's author must be on that list, and because every block has to match the same post, the feed is reduced to posts by tidymalism.bsky.social that also contain one of the five cleaning keywords — so almost nothing qualifies. The fix given is to delete the green block or switch it from Include to Exclude, then hit Rebuild. A last note says exclusion terms containing an asterisk, such as http*, DM* and account*, are matched literally and never fire, while plain words like dental work fine.

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Graze Social @graze.social · 22/09/2026

Ask a Question does three shapes: yes/no, pick one of your own options, or rate on a scale you define. The trick nothing else does - it scores the option you chose, not whichever one won. Running on TypeSafe's brand new Jev, a model perfectly shaped for this work.

An Ask a Question node in the Graze feed builder. Inside a Logic block set to "All of these", the question type is "Pick one of my options" and the question reads "what kind of food post is this". Three options are listed, each with an optional field for what it means: a recipe, a restaurant review, a food photo. Below them, a row reading "Chance it is: a recipe" - the option the threshold is measured against, rather than whichever option scores highest. Then a comparison set to "at least" and a threshold of 30%, and a switch labelled "Admit posts when over budget", turned off.

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Graze Social @graze.social · 22/09/2026

Natural Language: write one sentence - "is a job posting and does not mention unpaid internships" - and every post gets scored against it. It runs on DeBERTa-v3-large NLI on our own GPU, so what you get back is a calibrated 0-100% and you pick the threshold.

A Natural Language node in the Graze feed builder. Inside a Logic block set to "All of these", the node holds one sentence typed in a text box: "is a job posting and does not mention unpaid internships". Below it, a comparison set to "at least" and a threshold of 75%. At the bottom, a switch labelled "Admit posts when over budget", turned off.

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Graze Social @graze.social · 22/09/2026

Tell your feed what you want in plain English! Two new nodes are live for everyone today - "Natural Language" and "Ask a Question". Ditch the regexes, and tell Graze exactly what you mean. Available today for all feeds.

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It's live in the feed editor for everyone: open a feed, hit the Page palette, add a layer. Huge thanks to our beta crew who've been running network-aware feeds for weeks and telling us what broke. Go build something weird and show us!

The Graze feed editor with the Page palette open on the left. Under "Ordering": New layer, Trending layer, Blend layer, Old layer, Best Of layer, Wilson Trending layer. Under "Audience": Only Show Posts From, Audience Group, Move Up Posts From. To the right, a feed with a New layer at 60% and a Trending layer at 40% carrying two "Move up" blocks, and a word-list filter for basketball, nba, wnba.

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Every layer keeps its own knobs - decay, window, like and reply weights, an engagement gate - and any layer dials down to 0% when you want it off without losing the setup. Bring it back whenever.

Two layers. A Trending layer at 45% of every page with its Parameters open (Like 2, Reply 4, Repost 3, Decay 0.4, Window 12 hours, plus reader-weight fields) and its Thresholds open (and, like_count at least 5). Below it an Old layer at 0% of every page with the note "Off. At 0% nothing from this layer reaches the page; its settings stay here for when you turn it back up."

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Mix and match! An Audience Group takes any or all of several filters - "their communities OR their follows' follows" - and each one can insist on a minimum, like reached by at least 5 of the people they follow.

A New layer whose Audience section holds an "If nothing matches: Show the feed" dropdown and a purple "Audience Group" block set to "Any of these". Inside the group are two "Only show posts from" blocks: "Their communities" and "People their follows follow, reached by at least 5 of the people they follow".

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Seven ways to read who's reading: people they follow · their follows' follows · their niche favorites · what's popular near them · what their network started following this week · their communities · and this feed's own authorities - the accounts your feed's writers collectively trust.

A Trending layer with one "Move up posts from" block. Its "posts from" dropdown is open, listing seven choices: People they follow (selected), People their follows follow, Their niche favorites, Popular near them, What their network is discovering, Their communities, and This feed's own authorities.

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Want a harder line? "Only show posts from people their follows follow" keeps a layer inside the reader's own world - and you decide what happens if that comes up empty: show the feed anyway, or show nothing at all.

Close-up of a New layer at 60% of every page. Its Audience section shows an "If nothing matches" dropdown open with two options, "Show nothing" and "Show the feed unfiltered" (selected), and a green "Only show posts from" block set to "People their follows follow, reached by at least 1 of the people they follow".

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Now the fun part. Give a layer an audience! "Move up posts from people they follow" - and they means whoever is reading. Nothing gets dropped, the posts they'd reach for first just float to the top. Same feed, different page, every reader.

Close-up of a Trending layer at 40% of every page. Its Audience section shows Boost strength 100%, combine by Strongest, and two purple "Move up posts from" blocks: "People they follow" at weight 100% and "People their follows follow" at weight 50%.

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Let's start with the page. Split it however you like - 60% newest, 40% trending, or five layers each doing their own thing. Every layer gets its slice of every page, interleaved, so nobody scrolls past one ordering to reach the next.

Graze feed editor. A FEED block containing a PAGE block with two layers: "New layer, 60% of every page" and "Trending layer, 40% of every page", each with a "Share of every page" number field, collapsed Thresholds, and an Audience row with "+ Only show", "+ Move up" and "+ Group" buttons. Below, a LOGIC block with a word list: text contains basketball, nba, wnba.

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Graze Social @graze.social · 17/09/2026

Your feed, their way! Feeds have always been one list, same for everybody who opens it. Today that changes - we've rebuilt feed ordering around layers, and any layer can be tuned to the person reading. Same feed, a different page for every reader. Live now for all feeds!

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Miss a day? Now your feed catches you up. Feed Pulse reads the posts your readers actually looked at, and writes a short daily front page for you - all through @cocore.dev's artisanal, farm-to-table AI inference ATProto co-op! Available *today* for all feeds.

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Graze Social @graze.social · 11/09/2026

Graze always works better together! Someone builds a filter once, publishes it, and anyone can drop it into a feed - that's what we call custom nodes. Now, they keep themselves current! Turn on Auto-Update to take every safe release, hold on the ones that need attention, and build with ease!

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Graze Social @graze.social · 10/09/2026

Let's make some changes! Building a feed can be tough - *editing* can be even tougher. That's why we've added an inline assistant to suggest changes based on plain language, so you can build better, faster.

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Graze Social @graze.social · 09/09/2026

Got something to share with the audience? We've just made sticky posts that much easier - create tagged sets of posts that rotate through your feeds en masse, starting today!

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Graze Social @graze.social · 08/09/2026

It's time for some quality content! We've added some great new time-based rules *and* ratio-based operators so you can create scheduled changes to your feeds, and filter out the noise using your own special sauce.

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Graze Social @graze.social · 14/06/2026

Hey quick question anyone know what was happening these days our DB had some weird spikes #Knicks

Traffic load on Graze servers where you can clearly see all the finals, growing each time

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Graze Social @graze.social · 13/03/2026

New experimental feature on Graze! Emit Rules. Instead of only including matched posts, your feed can now include the referenced post (thread parent, root, quoted post, or self).

Selecting which post to actually emit into a feed

If the emit type isn't present, what is the intended action for the post you matched against?

Now available under the advanced tab on adding a new feed!

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Graze Social @graze.social · 04/03/2026

We quietly released this feature this week, and already have 80 feeds on the new personalization engine - and it couldn't be easier to get started with it. All you have to do is create a feed on Graze, and select your "sort" mechanism to be "Personalized". That's it.

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Graze Social @graze.social · 04/03/2026

Bluesky has hit stasis — people are finally staying. Now, the question is growth. When a system is stable, any amount of compounding growth matters, which is why we're shipping personalization as early as possible — to help make the most of this moment in @bsky.app's history.

Daily likes chart for Bluesky since Nov 2024 with the clear slowdown in loss as of December 2025

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Graze Social @graze.social · 02/03/2026

Great news! Building a feed on Graze got way easier today. Our prompt-based feed generator got a massive facelift over the weekend, and can now help you create the perfect feed using plain language (like this feed about ATProto without any mention of @jcsalterego.bsky.social). Come give it a try!

A feed about the atproto ecosystem but minus anything about Jerry, which is what we all want

And it comes back with a great design! Semantic similarity, a nice well-designed compliant regex, a set of high likelihood hashtags, lists of users to focus on, and more!

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Graze Social @graze.social · 27/01/2026

"Oh it's a big old people feed right" - @reedharmeyer.bsky.social

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This is our first real shot in 20 years to build a new vision for the social web. The way things are going, we may not get another chance. Now is the time to experiment with what a different future could look like. We hope you'll join us.

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Platforms controlled by these people are not your friends. We're watching it play out in real time—TikTok's new owners, the destruction of X, Zuckerberg's pivot to whoever's in power. The only way out is through an open social that's designed to prevent an oligarch taking the helm.

A picture of the tech leaders at the Trump inauguration in 2025

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Traditional social knows the walls are closing in. That's why they're copying custom feeds—but it won't work. They'll never allow radical ownership like ATProto offers, just window dressing. Their entire business model is predicated on control. You can't graft ownership on at the last mile.

Instagram copying custom feeds https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-use-instagrams-blend-feature

Reddit copying custom feeds https://www.theverge.com/news/837780/reddit-r-popular-community-going-away-steve-huffman

Threads copying custom feeds https://www.zdnet.com/article/threads-just-got-a-little-more-like-bluesky/

YouTube copying custom feeds https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/25/youtube-is-working-on-a-feature-that-will-fix-the-messy-home-feed/

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This is why sports on X and Threads sucks compared to Bluesky. Building a great feed for every community is simply too much work to ever be worth it to a centralized team - so they don't. But when anyone can build it, someone fills the vacuum with an amazing experience on Bluesky.

The actual landing page for the live event on X - like - what? No actual content, some garbage accounts next to Shannon Sharpe, a link to a soccer match, and a post from a day ago?

The NFL doesn't even exist on threads as a trending topic?

Posts from a year ago about the AFC Championships on the day of the AFC Championships?

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Open social is a market economy for attention—people just build what they need and share it. @richferro.com built this feed because he wants a space to watch the playoffs with other fans, and he knows he's not alone in that desire. We all build the feed together, and choose whats best for ourselves.

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Traditional social is a command economy for attention—a small team decides what everyone sees, optimized for their goals. They build the algorithm for engagement, ads, and time on site, and give you a feed that's just good enough that you don't leave, and they keep you locked up in their experience.

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So why can't this happen on Twitter or Threads? It's not a technology problem. It's a structure problem—the system isn't built for you to create, it's built for you to consume. Now that there's a viable alternative, the decline of traditional social is inevitable. Centralized networks always lose.

A centralized vs decentralized network from Paul Paran's 1962 paper on communications networks https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2005/P2626.pdf

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