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Monetizing a bsky feed is truly innovating new stones to try to get blood from. Good luck with that

Gotta survive somehow. If you're looking for a starting point, tho, I maintain a list of games industry feeds. I believe all the feeds on the list with the exception of my Game Dev feed are ad-free. 👋🏻

Trezy@trezy.codes

It's time to update the living list of all the game dev feeds! Bookmark this thread and check back every once in a while to see if any more have been added! 🧵

Rena Kunisaki 🇨🇦

@segment6.net

Then it's time for me to unsubscribe from the game dev feed.

bsky.app/profile/trez...

Trezy@trezy.codes

./yemáko/badgames.zip

@badgameszip.itch.io

hi everyone- if you don't want the ads, you can mute these words in settings > moderation. use these settings and the ads will be gone! (or join a different game dev feed, like "Game Dev💙" by @steinmakesgames.bsky.social,, it has the same kind of content, no ads, with an active responsive admin!)

./yemáko/badgames.zip

@badgameszip.itch.io

nothing against trezy or the implementation of the ads, but I personally want to push for this space to be INCREDIBLY HOSTILE to brands and advertisers, like how Tumblr is. I don't want anyone to be able to buy/sell my attention. that sucks and it's what i hate about other social media sites.

First, I’m sticking to my original promises. Any ads I allow into the feed will be either… 1) Targeted and directly relevant to game devs; OR 2) Broadly relevant and for a good cause, e.g. charity. Ads will also be identifiable. They'll have #ad, #sponsored, or #promotion in the skeet.

The other promise is that I’ll never allow ads to overrun the feed. At the absolute maximum, ads will saturate 5% of the feed (~1 ad in 20 skeets). More often, I’ll keep it closer to 1% (1 ad in 100 skeets).

You may have seen some ads running in the feed already. Those skeets from @graze.social talking about this feed being run on Graze? Ads. FWIW, building feeds with Graze is great, and feeds are the heart of Bluesky. Seems relevant to me. 😉