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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

Reply here with questions, comments, and suggestions.

I'm also happy to review the Feeds you made!

Also comment with your Feed once you're done making it, I'll be happy to add it to the list of Feeds I recommend. 😄

hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

3: Intermediate - Use lists

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4: Advanced - Add single users

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5: Advanced - Increase Loading Time

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

Intermediate Guide to Setting up Feeds: Use Lists

Set up a List of Users to add, and a List of Users to filter.

First, create two lists on your account.

Click "Lists" then "+ New".

People can see if they’re on a list, so name them carefully so users know what the list is about.

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Go to Lists on your Bluesky account, and click “+ New”.

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

Guide to Making Ultimate 🦋 Fandom Feeds

1: Beginner - Setting up Feed in skyfeed.app

The Very Basics

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Recommended Format

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2: Intermediate - Find unique keywords

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

Select “Feed Building”

Next to where it says “SkyFeed Building, select “+ Create Feed” in the drop down menu.

Enter your Feed Name.

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

Beginners Guide to Setting up Feeds using Skyfeed.App

(B) Recommended Format

*You will need to do this on a desktop. The mobile version is too small.*

Change: Input Entire Network to *7 days*.

Change:

Remove if *Image Count* equals 0.

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Change the Input Entire Network setting to 7 days.

Change the Remove setting from Item to Image Count. The block should say, “Remove if Image Count equals 0”.

hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

Find “App Password”:

- Go to “Settings”

- Go to “Privacy and Security”

- Click “App passwords”

- Click “Add App Password”

- The random name is fine. Click “Next”

- You’ll be given a random password. Copy it onto a spreadsheet.

- Enter it into “App Password” to login to Skyfeed.

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Screencap showing how to find Settings and Privacy and security.

Screencap showing how to find App passwords and how to Add App Password.

When you click Add App Password, there’ll be a random word there. Click Next. Then click the copy button.

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

Beginners Guide to Setting up Feeds using Skyfeed.App

(A) The Very Basics, for those who have never used SkyFeed

Login to skyfeed.app

Username will be “username” without adding bsky.social at the end

“App Password” is NOT your password.

You’ll need to get it from your bsky account

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

Add Single Users:

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Increase Loading Time:

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

Advanced Guide to Setting up Feeds: Add single users

Feeds only show 3 days worth of posts, and are limited to keywords.

Adding a user list overcomes the keyword limitation, but only for users that post exclusively for your fandom, and posts are still limited to 3 days.

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

You now have your basic feed set-up!

You can publish the Feed, upload an avatar image, write a description, etc.

You can continue to make changes, too. See my other guides:

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Add lists: bsky.app/profile/hill...

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

Intermediate Guide to Setting up Feeds: Find unique keywords

(A) Test each keyword to see what posts show.
In this example, I could not use “TADC” because too many un-related posts appear.

Instead, I changed it to three formats: “#TADC”, “TADC ”, and “ TADC” (#TADC|TADC | TADC)

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Put “TADC” by itself into the RegEx box, and you can see what kind of posts that keyword will pull. That’ll give you an idea of what you can and can’t include.

An example of how modifying the format of the keywords can prevent unwanted posts from appearing.

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

What the Visual Editor should look like when you’ve entered all the default words to be removed. This should remove most AI art and spam.

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

Click “+ Add Block”

Add another “RegEx” block.

Select “Image Alt Text” and “Link” so all three Targets are green.

Check the “Invert” box. Now everything in this block will be removed from the feed.

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How to add a RegEx block, and set it to filter words by selecting “Invert”. Also select all three Targets, they should be Green.

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

Change:

RegEx: Add keywords. Place the “|” symbol (the vertical bar, not L or i) between keywords to separate them. Spaces matter.

Select “Image Alt Text” under Target. Both “Both Text” and “Image Alt Text” should be green.

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Sample of keywords in the RegEx box, separate by the vertical bar | symbol. “The Amazing Digital Circus”, “theamazingdigitalcircus”, “#TADC”, “tadc “, and “ tadc” will all be searched for separately. Text sample: The Amazing Digital Circus|TheAmazingDigitalCircus|#TADC|tadc | tadc

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

Beginners Guide to Setting up Feeds using Skyfeed.App

(B) Recommended Format

*You will need to do this on a desktop. The mobile version is too small.*

Change: Input Entire Network to *7 days*.

Change:

Remove if *Image Count* equals 0.

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

Example of adding additional words into the RegEx Invert box so that you can still use a critical keyword to pull in posts.

hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

(D) The most important words:

Sometimes, a very important word for a fandom will still overlap with some other posts. In that case, I’ll use the Invert Regex box to eliminate overlapping words.

For example, “Madoka” is too important to the Madoka Magica feed to modify or eliminate.

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

So I’ve learned to use both “Genshin” and “原神” for the Genshin Impact Feed, plus the English and Japanese versions of the character names.

Fans will post in English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Thai, you name it - I’ll use all the words I can find so everyone is included.

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For example, the Genshin feed has multiple forms of characters names in various languages, which will help find posts from users across the globe.

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

(C) Add words in other language:

Sometimes I find a Rosetta stone post - someone who posts tags in multiple languages.

For example, this post has Genshin impact tags in both English and Japanese.

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A post that shows tag names for multiple characters in both Japanese and English. I can use this to figure out what spellings to use as keywords.

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

I based the keywords on what I see in posts that should be in the Feed.

You’ll need to continuously check your feed to add, remove, and modify keywords.

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

I checked them: pomni|ragatha|jax

Without hashtags or other tricks, they pulled in too many unrelated posts. So I decided to use hashtags with them based on the other posts I saw.

#pomni|#ragatha

This didn’t work for #jax which was still too common,

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

(B) Find what others are using for keywords. You can do this using the very Feed you’ve already started.

In this example, someone with #TADC in their post also has several other keywords.

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Some sample posts showing how one post will have multiple keywords in it. In this post, there’s three character names that I’ll try to use as keywords for the feed.

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

An example of how spacing and symbols change keywords.

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

Spaces matter. I add spaces before and/or after the word and before the | vertical bar to change what posts are pulled.

You can also use “.+” (period then plus sign) to capture posts with two words that aren’t consecutive.

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

Intermediate Guide to Setting up Feeds: Find unique keywords

(A) Test each keyword to see what posts show.
In this example, I could not use “TADC” because too many un-related posts appear.

Instead, I changed it to three formats: “#TADC”, “TADC ”, and “ TADC” (#TADC|TADC | TADC)

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

Continue to my Advanced Guides:

Add Single Users:

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Increase Loading Time:

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

Advanced Guide to Setting up Feeds: Add single users

Feeds only show 3 days worth of posts, and are limited to keywords.

Adding a user list overcomes the keyword limitation, but only for users that post exclusively for your fandom, and posts are still limited to 3 days.

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hillingsamaFeeds @hillingsamafeeds.bsky.social · Apr 20

Again, the List URL is for my Filter list. I include AI artists, people who only post screencaps, accounts that post art that isn’t theirs (sometimes inadvertently), spam accounts, etc.

I remove heavy screencap posters because they slow the Feed load time.

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