Reposted by Social Futures Lab
Bluesky gives users the power to choose their algorithms, but how does this actually work in practice?
In our new preprint, we explore the ecosystem of Bluesky custom feeds and the feed creators behind them! 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2609.12958
arxiv.org
Middleware for Feed Recommendation in Practice: How Feed Creators Build, Maintain, and Sustain Custom Feeds on Bluesky
Scholars have long proposed third-party middleware as an alternative to centralized algorithmic feeds: feeds built and distributed by independent feed creators. This vision saw no large-scale instanti...
