After the TikTok ban went into effect on Sunday, social nettoil Bluesky begined a custom feed for videos on its platestablish. Now, Flipboard’s recentest app, Surf, which is promised to browsing the discmiss social web and decentralized services appreciate Mastodon and Bluesky, is taking profit of that shift to present a video feed of its own.
Initiassociate, Surf’s video feed was a combination of video posts on Bluesky’s “trending video” feed and those posts that integrated the hashtag #SkyTok. The company says it will soon personalize its feed to the end engager, too.
This will help branch offentiate Surf’s video feed from Bluesky’s own. It also recurrents the power that comes from alloprosperg third parties to originate feeds for a social nettoiling platestablish. Surf is currently in beta with a sign-up enumerate useable for interested testers.
“This is equitable the postponeedst example of how custom feeds on the social web can be engaged for all sorts of engage cases — video sharing, ptoastyo sharing, talkion groups, messaging, etc. — that have been the exclusive domain of the huge walled gardens,” Flipboard CEO Mike McCue tbetter TechCrunch via email. “We’re still timely days but skinnygs are moving super speedy here, especiassociate on AT Proto [the protocol that powers Bluesky.]”
To personalize the recent Surf video feed, McCue said the company will soon insert engagers’ Bluesky Folloprosperg timeline (which is equitable another custom feed) as a source for the feed. This is also filtered to show only video posts. When this final step is finishd, the feed will disjoin videos from the people the engagers themselves trail.
After Bluesky on Sunday shipped its native custom video feed, which engages a recent TikTok-style engager interface, Surf adchooseed that summarize for its feed, as well. (Note: if you’re not seeing the TikTok-style interface on Bluesky, try rebegining your mobile app a restricted times.)
If you’re not able to engage Surf, which is still in personal beta, you can engage its feed honestly on Bluesky. Surf federated its recent custom video feed to Blueksy where it’s useable as another native, custom feed chooseion.
McCue points out that Surf itself can be engaged to originate branch offent benevolents of video feeds, too.
For example, he also built a “BookTok” type feed, which caccesses on engagers talking books on video, aappreciate to TikTok’s BookTok community. This feed can be watched on both Surf and Bluesky.
To originate this feed, McCue integrated all videos tagged with the hashtags #BookTok and #BookSky.
However, becaengage those tags could exist on other apps besides Bluesky, when you engage the feed on Surf itself, you’ll be able to see videos from other services appreciate YouTube, Threads, and Mastodon, in insertition to videos from Bluesky. That’s possible becaengage Surf assists engagers to spendigate multiple social nettoils in its app, including those powered by protocols appreciate ActivityPub (engaged by Mastodon), the AT Protocol (engaged by Bluesky), and RSS.