After the ban on TikTok began on Sunday, the social network Bluesky launched a custom feed for videos on its platform. now, The latest Flipboard app, Surf, dedicated to browsing the open social web and decentralized services like Mastodon and Bluesky, took advantage of that move to introduce its own video feed.

Initially, Surf’s video feed was a combination of video posts in Bluesky’s “trending video” feed and those posts that included the hashtag #SkyTok. The company says it will soon personalize its feed to the end user, too.

This helps differentiate Surf’s video feed from Bluesky’s own. It also represents the power that comes from allowing third parties to create feeds for a social networking platform. Surf is available now beta with a sign-up list available for interested testers.

“This is the latest example of how traditional social web feeds can be used for all kinds of use cases – video sharing, photo sharing, discussion groups, messaging, and more. Flipboard CEO Mike McCue told TechCrunch via email. “It’s still early days but it’s moving very fast here, especially with AT Proto (the protocol that powers Bluesky.)”

To personalize the new Surf video feed, McCue said the company will soon add users’ Bluesky Following timeline (which is just a custom feed) as a feed source. It is also filtered to show only video posts. Once the last step is done, the feed will show videos from people that users follow themselves.

completion Bluesky on Sunday sent out its native custom video feedwhich uses a new TikTok-style user interface, Surf has also adopted that design for its feed. (Note: if you don’t see Bluesky’s TikTok-style interface, try restarting your mobile app a few times.)

If you can’t use Surf, which is still in private beta, you can use it its feed directly to Bluesky. Surf federated its new custom video feed to Blueksy where it can be used as another native, custom feed option.

McCue points out that Surf itself can be used to create different types of video feeds, too.

For example, he also built a “BookTok” type feed, which focuses on users discussing video books, similar to TikTok’s BookTok community. This feed can be viewed by both Surf and Bluesky.

To create this feed, McCue included all the videos tagged with the hashtags #BookTok and #BookSky.

However, since these tags may exist in other apps besides Bluesky, if you use the Surf feed itself, you may see videos from other services such as YouTube, Threads, and Mastodon, in addition to videos from Bluesky. That’s possible because Surf allows users to explore multiple social networks in its app, including those powered by protocols like ActivityPub (used by Mastodon), AT Protocol (used by Bluesky), and RSS.