#AltHSky
#AltHSky is an opt-in feed for the alterhuman communities on bluesky. if you like, you can follow it here.
“opt-in" means that you have to consent to having your posts included, which you can do in two ways:
- use the hashtag in a post. regardless of the other content of the post, it will show up in the feed.
- put the hashtag in your bio. the feed will then feature posts of yours that contain alterhuman keywords.
the filter is case-insensitive, so capitalization doesn't matter.
why do it like this? the idea came from gaz of beit mazalot. he wanted a cosier, more intentional place for alterhumans on bluesky. one that actually feels like a community. it also has the extra benefit of filtering out unrelated but similarly-named topics, and random mentions from wiseasses joking about whatever new legislation is happening right now.
the keyword search currently uses the following regular expression:
(.*actuallydivine.*)|(.*alterbeing.*)|(.*alterhuman.*)|(.*alternormal.*)|(.*archetrop.*)|(.*beastpunk.*)|(.*cameo shift.*)|(.*conceptkin.*)|(.*constel.*)|(.*copinglink.*)|(.*daemon.*)|(.*daemian.*)|(.*dream shift.*)|(.*endel.*)|(.*envisage shift.*)|(.*extranth.*)|(.*fableing.*)|(.*factfolk.*)|(.*factiv.*)|(.*factkin.*)|(.*factualkin.*)|(.*fictionfolk.*)|(.*fictionkin.*)|(.*fictionflicker.*)|(.*fictiv.*)|(.*fictomere.*)|(.*fictotype.*)|(.*folcinter.*)|(.*hearthome.*)|(.*hearttype.*)|(.*holother.*)|(.*kinpunk.*)|(.*kintype.*)|(.*linktype.*)|(.*median.*)|(.*nephesh mavar.*)|(.*noema.*)|(.*nomorph.*)|(.*nonhuman.*)|(.*ontopunk.*)|(.*otherheart.*)|(.*otherhuman.*)|(.*otherkin.*)|(.*otherlink.*)|(.*otherpaw.*)|(.*othervague.*)|(.*paleotherian.*)|(.*paratype.*)|(.*phantom shift.*)|(.*phytanthrope.*)|(.*plural.*)|(.*pluran.*)|(.*soulbond.*)|(.*species affirm.*)|(.*species dysphori.*)|(.*synpath.*)|(.*quadrobi.*)|(.*therian.*)|(.*therio.*)|(.*transspecies.*)|(.*vaguetype.*)|(.*ΘΔ.*)|(.*⎇.*)
some terms are truncated so that variations get picked up — for example, (.*archetrop.*) will match “archetrope", “archetroper", “archetropal" and “archetropy".
the #AltHSky feed was written in python using MarshalX's ATProto Feed Generator template as a base.