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🦇 DEADvin 🎃 GHASTney 👻
@devingaffney.com

Accounts (particularly huge ones like media orgs) should be able to set a "default feed" where, when you visit their profile, instead of seeing the reverse chron, gives you a feed they've created for their audience. This is a killer differentiator and @bsky.app needs to have built it a year ago.

Andrew Lisowski 💻@hipstersmoothie.com

1. Make Discover like For You 2. Improve feed UX (Both using and sharing) 3. Add more opportunities to discover feeds (anywhere from the new Discover feed showing you where it got a post or actual new items in feed generators that allow for cross promotion)

🦇 DEADvin 🎃 GHASTney 👻
@devingaffney.com

It does many things at once: 1. A clear "show don't tell" of the entire pitch of ATProto, 2. Turns what has otherwise been a high traffic dead zone in social for 20 years into a space for rapid experimentation, 3. Creates incentives for becoming BSKy first (i.e. news rooms can sell direct),

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🦇 DEADvin 🎃 GHASTney 👻
@devingaffney.com

Mostly covered here but point is a feed deployed on a high(er) traffic surface area like a profile is a much bigger swing for ownership (i.e. "you may be interested in this podcast we just started", "don't forget to sign up for our weekly email" etc interspersed by the newsroom)

🦇 DEADvin 🎃 GHASTney 👻@devingaffney.com

Not quite. The flow would be: You're the NYTimes - you have a diverse audience that comes to you for many reasons. Today, on Bluesky, when you, the dedicated reader, visit their profile page, you are presented with the "posts" tab - for large orgs particularly, this is all algorithmically determined

Patrick McEwen
@pmcewen.com

This is a great idea. Should go one step further and just make the profile tabs fully customizable so everyone can pick which feeds show up. For most accounts, the videos tab is most useful for confirming they don't post many videos

Ben Werdmuller
@werd.io

Seems very smart to me. Honestly, every profile should be able to have multiple feeds (eg important posts, best replies, etc). Certainly publications could highlight their most high-impact posts. I'd probably do some curation of my feed too. Pinned posts are the crummiest version of this.

🦇 DEADvin 🎃 GHASTney 👻
@devingaffney.com

Much more for NYTimes etc - which is a vital constituency to win - what if large accounts used feeds to manage their direct representation of self to their most dedicated audiences? A news site's homepage is articles laid out in semi personalized fashion with enticements/ads interspersed to....