It's even worse than it appears..
Thursday October 1, 2026; 4:23 PM EDT
Feed titles for readers#
  • When designing your RSS feeds, the top level title should be the title of the user's account. So if Bluesky had a feed for each user, the channel-level <title> element of the feed would be #
    • <title>Bluesky: Mark Cuban</title>#
  • Why? Well because readers need context. And it's easy.#
  • And feeds are showing up in places where there isn't much room for the titles, so you have to make your characters count. #
  • Bluesky shows the user's address, imho it should be the string the user chooses, usually simply their name.#
  • Arrow points to Mark Cuban on Bluesky. That's what the title should say.#

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