{"id":650134,"date":"2025-01-20T22:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T19:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/flipboards-new-app-surf-adds-its-own-video-feed-too\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T22:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T19:05:17","slug":"flipboards-new-app-surf-adds-its-own-video-feed-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/flipboards-new-app-surf-adds-its-own-video-feed-too\/","title":{"rendered":"#Flipboard’s new app Surf adds its own video feed, too"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After the TikTok ban went into effect on Sunday, social<\/a> network Bluesky launched a custom feed for videos on its platform. Now, Flipboard\u2019s newest app<\/a>, Surf, which is dedicated to browsing the open social web and decentralized services like Mastodon and Bluesky, is taking advantage of that move to introduce a video feed of its own.<\/p>\n

Initially, Surf\u2019s video feed was a combination of video posts on Bluesky\u2019s \u201ctrending video\u201d feed and those posts that included the hashtag #SkyTok. The company says it will soon personalize its feed to the end user, too. <\/p>\n

This will help differentiate Surf\u2019s video feed from Bluesky\u2019s own. It also represents the power that comes from allowing third parties to build feeds for a social networking platform. Surf is currently in beta<\/a> with a sign-up list available for interested testers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is just the latest example of how custom feeds on the social web can be used for all sorts of use cases \u2014 video sharing, photo sharing, discussion groups, messaging, etc. \u2014 that have been the exclusive domain of the large walled gardens,\u201d Flipboard CEO Mike McCue told TechCrunch via email. \u201cWe\u2019re still early days but things are moving super fast here, especially on AT Proto [the protocol that powers Bluesky.]\u201d<\/p>\n

To personalize the new Surf video feed, McCue said the company will soon add users\u2019 Bluesky Following timeline (which is just another custom feed) as a source for the feed. This is also filtered to show only video posts. When this final step is completed, the feed will display videos from the people the users themselves follow.<\/p>\n

After Bluesky on Sunday shipped its native custom video feed, which employs a new TikTok-style user interface, Surf adopted that design for its feed, as well. (Note: if you\u2019re not seeing the TikTok-style interface on Bluesky, try restarting your mobile app a few times.)<\/p>\n

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Image Credits:<\/strong>screenshot of Surf’s BookTok feed<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you\u2019re not able to use Surf, which is still in private beta, you can use its feed directly on Bluesky<\/a>. Surf federated its new custom video feed to Blueksy where it\u2019s available as another native, custom feed option.<\/p>\n

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Image Credits:<\/strong>Surf’s BookTok feed, when viewed on Bluesky<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

McCue points out that Surf itself can be used to make different kinds of video feeds, too.<\/p>\n

For example, he also built a \u201cBookTok\u201d type feed,<\/a> which focuses on users discussing books on video, similar to TikTok\u2019s BookTok community. This feed can be viewed on both Surf<\/a> and Bluesky<\/a>. <\/p>\n

To make this feed, McCue included all videos tagged with the hashtags #BookTok and #BookSky. <\/p>\n

However, because those tags could exist on other apps besides Bluesky, when you use the feed on Surf itself, you\u2019ll be able to see videos from other services like YouTube, Threads, and Mastodon, in addition to videos from Bluesky. That\u2019s possible because Surf allows users to explore multiple social networks in its app, including those powered by protocols like ActivityPub (used by Mastodon), the AT Protocol (used by Bluesky), and RSS. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After the TikTok ban went into effect on Sunday, social network Bluesky launched a custom feed for videos on its platform. Now, Flipboard\u2019s newest app, Surf, which is dedicated to browsing the open social web and decentralized services like Mastodon and Bluesky, is taking advantage of that move to introduce a video feed of its…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":650135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Surf-6.5-inch.png?resize=554,1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[5055,151568,153745,153746,31059,4976,152429,153747,70588],"class_list":["post-650134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apps","tag-bluesky","tag-flipboard","tag-open-social-web","tag-social","tag-social-media","tag-social-networking","tag-surf","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}