Bluesky’s new Attie app uses AI to give you full control over your social feed

The standalone app, built on the AT Protocol and powered by Anthropic’s Claude, was unveiled at the ATmosphere conference by Jay Graber, who stepped back from Bluesky’s CEO role specifically to build it. It’s currently invite-only, with a waitlist open.

Bluesky’s best-known differentiator from X and Threads has always been its custom feed system, the ability to subscribe to algorithmically curated streams built by anyone, not just the platform. The problem has been that building those feeds required knowing how to write code.

Attie, a new standalone app unveiled at Bluesky’s ATmosphere developer conference over the weekend, is designed to close that gap entirely. Attie lets users build personalised social feeds by describing what they want in plain language, the same way they would talk to any other AI assistant.

Examples on the app’s website include prompts like “Show me electronic music and ...