About

What this is, what it rewards, what it does not claim to know.

What This Is

Instant Internet News is a custom Bluesky feed and public signal desk. It runs a ranking algorithm called Receipts that surfaces posts where people show their work: original writing, primary sources, linked evidence, substantive replies.

The site you're reading is a read-only view of the same ranking output that powers the Bluesky feed. One engine, two faces.

What It Rewards

Original posts over repost sludge
Links to primary sources: court documents, government filings, research papers, code
Posts from trusted graph neighbors: mutuals, follows, curated lists
Substantive replies that add context
Recognized reporting outlets

What It Penalizes

Reposts
Screenshot discourse with no source link
Floodposting: more than ten posts a day starts costing you
Low-effort quote-dunks
Short drive-by replies

What It Does Not Claim

It does not verify factual truth
It does not do sentiment analysis or stance detection
It does not claim to be neutral. It has a point of view: substance over noise
It does not try to be comprehensive. It is deliberately narrow
It does not use engagement metrics as a primary signal

This is a ranking instrument, not an oracle. It admits it has taste instead of pretending to be weather.

Rendering Policy

Posts on this site are rendered natively with links to the original Bluesky post. If an author has disabled logged-out visibility, or has deleted their post, the item is omitted from the public edition. We do not mirror, screenshot, or cache post content.

This is curation, not extraction.

Source Code

This project is open source: github.com/unpingable/atproto-feeds

Opt Out

Want your posts excluded from this project? DM @instantinternet.news with "opt out" and your account will be removed from the feed, site, and any future archives. DM "opt in" to reverse it.

This is a project-level exclusion, separate from Bluesky's own visibility settings. It applies to your DID across all surfaces this project operates.