I joined bluesky in 2023 and had been trying to use it as a place to follow authors/creatives and twitter as a place to follow news/politics. With more and more people leaving twitter entirely for bluesky, I needed a way to separate content from different users.
Bluesky allows you build lists of users, and you can then see posts from users in the list on the Posts tab of the list.
It's a little clunky, however, to have to navigate into each list; it would be much nicer to be able to tap between lists like you're tapping between the "Following" and "Discover" feeds along the top of your home screen.
Well, you can create your own custom feed according to bluesky developer documentation , but that requires that you have your own server to deploy it on. You can alternatively use the skyfeed app, which will host your feed and provide a GUI for creating your custom feed.
Then I simply add this custom feed to "My feeds" and I can quickly navigate between different types of streams.
This doesn't guarantee that "Author posts" will be all about creative work; I could try to create more complicated rules for that, but it works well enough for now.
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