Getting started

Phlogiston is a reader with personal feed curation and optional public content interaction. Read Following and saved custom feeds, open two views, inspect conversations, and quiet a conversation in one feed. In Settings you can separately enable text posts and replies, likes and reposts, with undo. Notifications, follows and media uploads are not available.

Try two views

Open Following and use Add another view to choose a feed or The Cabinet. Pinned keeps it there when you change your main feed. Remember per feed restores the companion you chose for each feed. Opening a conversation temporarily replaces the companion; Back to companion brings it back.

Can I make a feed using my alt?

You can make a private Phlogiston view of your main account's Following feed with additional exclusions from another account's direct public blocks. Sign in with the account that will read it, then choose Create a personal feed. No blocks are copied and you do not need to sign in as the curator.

This is not a feed of the alt's posts or everyone it follows. It does not publish a custom feed under the alt's identity. Following-graph sources and public feed publication are future work.

Can I create a community?

Not through the app yet. Communities are configured by the operator; The Cabinet is the first one. Signing in does not create a community or grant moderator access. You can submit one of your own public posts to The Cabinet for review.

What does Content interaction do?

It is off by default. Enabling it uses your provider's consent screen, then lets you make public likes, reposts, text posts and replies. Undo removes the associated record; post deletion is offered only for posts created through Phlogiston. Disabling disconnects this account in every browser. Sign in again normally to reconnect with reader permissions. Check interrupted operations in Settings before any retry.

What does Quiet here do?

It hides that conversation in the selected Phlogiston feed, with Undo. It does not mute Bluesky notifications. Separately labeled notification controls request their own permission. This local control is not the full ACL/Quench policy system.