Popular Events Feed

We are excited to announce the launch of the popular events feed. The popular events feed looks at posts and likes for posts that reference Smoke Signal event URLs.

Right now, the feed is very simple in what it provides, but I'm excited about the roadmap. It currently serves a feed of posts roughly sorted by when the post is first encountered on the atprotocol network.

The next step is to introduce a more complex score value and sort the feed based on that.

You can start using it today: https://bsky.app/profile/smokesignal.events/feed/tSIrKDMyv

Supercell

Supercell is an open-source feed generator that supports JSONPath and Rhai content matching. This project was released under the permissive and flexible MIT license.

We created Supercell to support feeds as a feature for Smoke Signal. People will hear about events in one of two ways. The first is through direction sharing and reference. If I go to an event and want you to, I'll share the event URL with you or send you an invite. The second is indirect word of mouth, such as posting links or discussing them in posts. This second method is how Supercell came to be.

Supercell differs from some of the existing Bluesky feed generator starter projects in a few ways. One big difference is that Supercell consumes Jetstream and not the firehose, and we think this is good for several reasons:

1. It reduces the load on the firehose for small-to-medium consumers.
2. Jetstream supports zstd, which results in a notable reduction in bandwidth.
3. It furthers the idea that you can consume intermediate relays and streams and still be a part of the atmosphere.