With the success of Bluesky starter packs — which Micro.blog can browse natively! — every other social web platform is trying to invent their own similar format. But we already have blogrolls and OPML. I’d love to see some standardization around this so that there’s a shared format across platforms.
@manton is there a post somewhere on how to Bluesky from micro.blog? As in what works and doesn’t etc…
@manton Manton, I agree of course. :-)
Do we have any info about the starter packs from Bluesky?
Are they a JSON format?
Given that Bluesky supports outbound RSS, if we can parse their files, we can use them for our feed readers.
@manton Also it would be cool if we could get my followers into OPML so I could subscribe to them in FeedLand.
@jarrod Check out the link in this blog post. The main thing missing is how to discover starter packs, unless you follow a link from someone's post. I'd like to experiment with surfacing them in Discover.
@manton Here's some example JSON for a starter pack. There's of course a lot of Bluesky-specific fields in it. The important part is the list of users in "listItemsSample". There's a separate call to get the entire list. gist.github.com/manton/a75ce...
@manton IIUC (@bsky.app newbie here) starter packs are one-time .. in that you discover and add them to your follower list at a certain point in time, but future updates to that pack (adds and deletes) will NOT be reflected in your feed, correct? Or do we have #DynamicStarterPacks already?
