Terms

When Bluesky Feed Creator puts a post into a feed, it’s referred to as “capturing”. As the feed owner, you set the parameters for how capturing happens by using excluded terms and included terms.

The service works like this:

• Exclusions - if a post includes one of your excluded terms, it cannot appear in your feed, even if it includes an included term.
• Inclusions - if a post has not been excluded and it includes one of your included terms, it appears in your feed.

Unless you use wildcards or emojis, included and excluded terms are always whole words with either spaces or punctuation on either side of them.

If you want to search for a specific hash tag, make sure you include the hash (#) symbol with it in your search term otherwise it won’t match.

When using emojis or emoji sequences as a term for including or excluding, posts will be excluded or included if they have emojis or emoji sequences matching the term - regardless of whether they have spaces, other characters or punctuation on either side of them.

There is no option to use regex (regular expressions).

Both the post text and any alt-text on images or GIFs are considered when searching for inclusions or exclusions. Text inside a quoted post is not considered.

Requiring Approval

You can choose to manually approve posts before they are shown in a public feed. Some examples of rules you could use to determine whether a post requires approval are:

• matching certain terms
• if the post contains a picture

Posts which require approval will show up in the settings page for your Feed, alongside all the automatically included posts. You can choose to approve or deny them.