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Stealing @hailey.at's thunder to explain something cool she just did. Now when you click on a trending topic, you'll go to a screen that looks like this (1/5)

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Next, it’d be great to see trends more relevant to people’s area of the world. No offence, but I couldn’t care less about all those US sports teams always in the trending section.

Hailey's creating a feed dynamically each time a trend is added. By "creating a feed" I mean she just creates a feed record on the @trending.bsky.app account. All of those feeds are hosted by the same server, which dynamically looks up the posts associated with the trend (3/5)

This gives her much better control over what posts show up within the trend, and will make the trends way better. For instance, she can now use semantic models to make sure the "Bears" trend only includes the NFL team -- and not the animal. You should already notice the difference! (4/5)

One interesting result of this is, we have all of these feeds created per trend. What do we do with them after the trend is over? We haven't decided 100% yet, but one interesting option is that we just freeze them as archives, becoming a snapshot of the events of that day. Which is fun! (5/5)

ahh, so hailey being the Trending Feed Arbiter was just testing / a stopgap for the trending account then, i was curious why she was listed as the creator of all the feeds lol

the only thing i don't really like about it being a feed is that we can't switch between "Top" and "Latest" like we were able to with the first iteration of trending topics

IMO there needs to be a way to sort by newest. If an event is trending for example, I want to see posts from ordinary people and not just the posts with the most likes