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Since our last update, we've shipped new features including: • custom feeds • blocks and mutelists • more fine-grained content moderation controls • custom domains as handles • production desktop app • invite codes per account • accessibility improvements • app passwords

Our @atproto.com ecosystem continues to grow: • open-sourced client https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app • feed generator starter kit https://github.com/bluesky-social/feed-generator • community documentation https://atproto.com/community

To see some projects from our community developers, visit here: https://atproto.com/community/projects Some highlights include: • @flipboard.com added Bluesky integration • @skyfeed.app surfaced custom feeds even before we released them in the official Bluesky app

Suggestion for custom feeds: there is a need for clearer documentation around how to deploy these, and for more docs around the architecture of BlueSky more generally. Going to 🧵 here about some misapprehensions that devs new to the ecosystem could have:

I and some devs in NYC were initially under the impression that a custom feed could act like a high-level filter (ie, something possible to only implement on the frontend), as it wasn’t immediately clear that deploying a custom feed requires you to host your own infrastructure to do so

I get that this may be part of the favoring of “decentralized” architecture more generally, but it seems a bit overly complex and expensive to have to copy posts into your own database, filter them there, and then serve them out again.

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