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After the TikTok Bachelor of Arts in Nursing give-up the ghost into core on Sunday , social net Blueskylaunched a tradition feed for videoson its platform . Now , Flipboard ’s newest app , Surf , which is dedicate to browse the open social web and decentralized help like Mastodon and Bluesky , is taking advantage of that move to introduce a picture feed of its own .
ab initio , Surf ’s video feed was a combination of video military post on Bluesky ’s “ sheer video ” provender and those posts that include the hashtag # SkyTok . The company says it will shortly personalize its provender to the oddment substance abuser , too .
This will help differentiate Surf ’s video recording provender from Bluesky ’s own . It also play the power that add up from allowing third political party to build feeds for a social networking political program . Surf is presently inbetawith a sign - up list available for concerned examiner .
“ This is just the latest example of how usance run on the social connection can be used for all sort of manipulation cases — television sharing , photo share-out , discussion groups , messaging , etc . — that have been the exclusive domain of the declamatory walled garden , ” Flipboard CEO Mike McCue tell TechCrunch via electronic mail . “ We ’re still early days but things are moving super tight here , especially on AT Proto [ the communications protocol that powers Bluesky . ] ”
AfterBluesky on Sunday shipped its native usage video feed , which employs a new TikTok - stylus drug user interface , Surf adopted that design for its feed , as well . ( Note : If you ’re not seeing the TikTok - fashion user interface on Bluesky , prove reboot your mobile app a few times . )
If you ’re not able to habituate Surf , which is still in private beta , you could useits feast directly on Bluesky . Surf federated its newfangled custom video feed to Blueksy where it ’s usable as another native , customs duty provender option .
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McCue points out that Surf itself can be used to make different kinds of video feeds , too .
For example , he also builta “ BookTok ” eccentric feed , which focuses on user discussing book on video , similar to TikTok ’s BookTok residential area . This feed can be consider on bothSurfandBluesky .
To make this feed , McCue included all videos tag with the hashtags # BookTok and # BookSky .
However , because those ticket could subsist on other apps besides Bluesky , when you employ the feed on Surf itself , you ’ll be capable to see videos from other services like YouTube , Threads , and Mastodon , in gain to video from Bluesky . That ’s possible because Surf allows user to explore multiple societal internet in its app , including those powered by protocol like ActivityPub ( used by Mastodon ) , the AT Protocol ( used by Bluesky ) , and RSS .
