Every spring, and every rule.
Open Current never ranks. Posts are shown in the exact order they were published. These are all the places posts come from, and every rule that decides whether a post is skipped. No likes, follows or engagement are ever used.
| Spring | How it arrives | What gets in / filter rules |
|---|---|---|
| Bluesky | Live push (Jetstream WebSocket) + search | All public posts in every language as they're made (narrow it with the Languages row). Replies hidden by default. Self-labeled and Bluesky-moderation-labeled posts (porn, sexual, nudity, gore, spam) are removed. Deleted posts vanish live. |
| Nostr | Live push (relay.primal.net, nos.lol, offchain.pub, relay.nostr.net) | Short text notes. Replies and content-warning notes skipped. Max 3 notes per author per 10 min (flood control). Deletion requests (kind 5) remove the note live. |
| Wikipedia & Wikimedia Commons | Live push (EventStreams) | New English articles and new Commons images. Bots and redirects skipped. Max 2 per editor per minute. |
| Hacker News | Live push (Firebase) | New stories. Dead/deleted skipped. |
| Mastodon (~30 servers) & Misskey (6 servers) | Polled in rotating batches every 20s | Public and local timelines or topic hashtags, including communities in many languages: mstdn.jp and pawoo.net (Japanese), mastodon.uno (Italian), piaille.fr and mamot.fr (French), troet.cafe, chaos.social and social.tchncs.de (German), masto.es, tkz.one and mastodon.cl (Spanish), mastodon.com.br, bolha.us and masto.pt (Portuguese), mastodon.nl (Dutch), 101010.pl (Polish), mastodon.sk (Slovak), toot.si (Slovenian), mastodon.africa, aus.social, mastodon.au, mastodon.nz, mstdn.dk, social.vivaldi.net, plus misskey.io, misskey.design, sharkey.world, sushi.ski, misskey.art and misskey.systems. Sensitive media behind a tap. |
| Lemmy & Mbin | Polled in rotating batches every 30–60s | Newest posts from lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, programming.dev, beehaw.org, sh.itjust.works, plus regional instances lemmy.eco.br, jlai.lu, feddit.nl, feddit.it, sopuli.xyz, feddit.org and lemmy.ca. NSFW and removed posts skipped. |
| Meme stream | Relay, every 5 min | Know Your Meme, memes.tumblr and Lemmy meme communities (c/memes, memes@sopuli.xyz, memes@lemmy.ml, programmer_humor, me_irl). Image posts only. NSFW behind a tap. |
| Crypto news | Relay, every 3 min | CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, The Block, Blockworks, Bitcoin Magazine, CryptoSlate, The Defiant, CryptoPotato, BeInCrypto, U.Today, NewsBTC, Bitcoinist. |
| Conflict desk (War current) | Relay, every 10 min | Kyiv Independent, Defense News, Breaking Defense, The War Zone, UN News Peace & Security (all stories); Al Jazeera, BBC World, BBC Middle East, Guardian World and Ukraine, DW, Times of Israel, ReliefWeb (only stories matching conflict keywords). In the War current, every image is behind a tap, and posts from other springs must match conflict keywords (war, strike, missile, ceasefire, invasion, troops, drone attack, military, frontline, Ukraine, Russia, Gaza, Israel, Iran, Sudan…). Bluesky gore/graphic-media labels remove a post. |
| World news | Relay, every 10 min | BBC (news, world, tech, science, sport), The Guardian (world, sport, music, games, science), NPR (news, music), Al Jazeera, Sky News. |
| World desks | Relay, every 15 min | 163 newsrooms from every region in 42 languages: full list below. |
| Tech press | Relay, every 10 min | The Verge, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Lobsters. |
| arXiv | Relay, every hour | New papers in cs.AI, astro-ph, q-bio, q-fin. |
| YouTube channels | Relay, every 30 min | Channel RSS for news (BBC, NBC, Al Jazeera English, France 24, DW, Reuters, AP, Channels Television, Africanews), science (Veritasium, Kurzgesagt, NASA, TED-Ed, SciShow, Numberphile), sports (ESPN, NBA, FIFA, Olympics, ICC, BBC Sport), gaming (IGN, PlayStation, Nintendo), music (COLORS, NPR Music, KEXP, Sofar Sounds), comedy (Just For Laughs Gags, America's Funniest Home Videos, Daily Dose Of Internet), animals (The Dodo, National Geographic, BBC Earth), art (MoMA, The Met, Tate), plus MKBHD, Linus Tech Tips and Coin Bureau. Plays in YouTube's privacy-enhanced (nocookie) player only when tapped. |
| YouTube search | Polled every 3 min (Piped open API) | Newest videos for the current topic. |
| Substack | Relay, every hour | Platformer, Noahpinion, Slow Boring, Astral Codex Ten, Lenny's Newsletter, The Pragmatic Engineer. |
| News sites | Polled every 2 min (direct RSS) | NYT, DW, CNBC, Wired, New Yorker, ESPN, CBS Sports, Pitchfork, Consequence, Quanta, NASA, GitHub Blog, Game Developer. |
| PeerTube, podcasts, DEV, GitHub, Stack Exchange | Polled 1–10 min | Newest items for the topic. |
| NASA APOD, Spaceflight News, USGS earthquakes, iNaturalist, Internet Archive | Polled 1–10 min | Newest items. |
World desks: 163 newsrooms, 42 languages
Fetched by our relay from each newsroom's public https RSS feed (3 newest stories per feed, refreshed at most every 20 to 30 minutes, nothing logged). Grouped by region; the language tag is shown on every card.
Global & multilingual (8)
UN News English English · ONU Info Français French · Noticias ONU Spanish · أخبار الأمم المتحدة Arabic · 联合国新闻 Chinese · Новости ООН Russian · Global Voices English · Global Voices Español Spanish
Europe, Caucasus & Central Asia (55)
DW English English · DW Deutsch German · DW Español Spanish · DW العربية Arabic · DW Русский Russian · DW Türkçe Turkish · DW 中文 Chinese · France 24 English English · France 24 Français French · France 24 Español Spanish · France 24 عربي Arabic · RFI Français French · RFI English English · Euronews English · Euronews Français French · El País Spanish · Le Monde French · Der Spiegel German · Tagesschau German · ANSA Italian · NOS Dutch · SVT Nyheter Swedish · Yle Finnish · NRK Norwegian · Meduza Russian · Meduza English English · Kyiv Independent English · Ukrainska Pravda Ukrainian · RTP Notícias Portuguese · BBC Русская служба Russian · BBC Україна Ukrainian · BBC Türkçe Turkish · DW Português Portuguese · DW Polski Polish · DW Українська Ukrainian · The Local English · Irish Times English · Notes from Poland English · ORF German · 20 Minutos Spanish · TVN24 Polish · iROZHLAS Czech · 444.hu Hungarian · G4Media Romanian · Aktuality SK Slovak · N1 Serbia Serbian · HRT Croatian · Balkan Insight English · ERR ET Estonian · LSM LV Latvian · Civil.ge English · JAM News English · Astana Times English · Kun.uz English · Gazeta.uz Russian
The Americas (17)
Folha de S.Paulo Portuguese · G1 Globo Portuguese · Clarín Spanish · La Nación Spanish · Infobae Spanish · Radio-Canada French · El Universal MX Spanish · El Tiempo CO Spanish · BBC Mundo Spanish · BBC Brasil Portuguese · El Comercio PE Spanish · La Diaria UY Spanish · La Nación CR Spanish · El Nacional VE Spanish · El Universo EC Spanish · Prensa Libre GT Spanish · Cooperativa Chile Spanish
Middle East & North Africa (14)
الجزيرة Arabic · Anadolu English English · Anadolu Türkçe Turkish · Asharq Al-Awsat English · BBC عربي Arabic · BBC فارسی Persian · BBC پښتو Pashto · DW فارسی Persian · Daily Sabah English · Middle East Eye English · The New Arab English · The National AE English · Royanews Arabic · Al-Monitor English
Africa (28)
Premium Times English · Daily Nation English · BBC Swahili Swahili · BBC Hausa Hausa · AllAfrica English · Jeune Afrique French · BBC Afrique French · BBC Somali Somali · BBC Amharic Amharic · BBC Yorùbá Yoruba · BBC Pidgin Nigerian Pidgin · The Citizen TZ English · Egypt Independent English · Hespress French · Daily Maverick English · MyJoyOnline English · Africanews English · Africanews FR French · Punch NG English · Le Monde Afrique French · RFI Afrique French · TelQuel French · Seneweb French · Mosaïque FM Arabic · TSA Algérie French · Club of Mozambique English · O País MZ Portuguese · Radio Tamazuj English
Asia (33)
Times of India English · The Hindu English · BBC हिन्दी Hindi · NHK ニュース Japanese · Yonhap English English · 연합뉴스 Korean · Korea Herald English · SCMP English · CNA Singapore English · Dawn English · Rappler English · VnExpress Vietnamese · BBC 中文 Chinese · Bangkok Post English · BBC اردو Urdu · BBC বাংলা Bengali · BBC தமிழ் Tamil · BBC Indonesia Indonesian · BBC Tiếng Việt Vietnamese · BBC 코리아 Korean · BBC 日本語 Japanese · BBC ไทย Thai · BBC नेपाली Nepali · DW Indonesia Indonesian · The Japan Times English · Taipei Times English · Hong Kong Free Press English · Indian Express English · Malay Mail English · Tuoi Tre News English · Inquirer English · Khmer Times English · The Irrawaddy English
Oceania (8)
ABC Australia English · RNZ English · The Guardian Australia English · Stuff NZ English · RNZ Pacific English · ABC Pacific Beat English · Newsroom NZ English · Post-Courier PNG English
Signals on the live feed
The live feed is one newest-first stream of every working spring, all on by default. Optional Signals chips (Social, News, Code, Science, Earth, Wiki, New sites, Video, Podcasts) let you narrow it; the choice stays in the address bar (?sig=earth) and this tab only, not in a cookie. A firehose cannot drown the others: groups take turns, and only about 48 cards stay in the page at once on a phone.
Added this batch (all https, no keys, no tracking): Wikipedia in every language and Wikidata (live EventStreams), GitHub public events (new repositories and releases, cached relay so we stay inside GitHub's rate limit), Lobsters, Product Hunt, bioRxiv and medRxiv, newly issued HTTPS certificates from live Certificate Transparency logs (Chrome’s official log list) as a “new sites” signal — a frozen snapshot is never shown, NASA EONET natural events, National Weather Service alerts, OpenStreetMap changesets, the latest public podcast episodes from fyyd, and two more Nostr relays. Hashnode and the Podcast Index have no working no-key public feed, so they were not added. Unreviewed Commons images are still linked, not shown.
Reels categories
On /reels you can pick All, Funny, Music, Sports, News, Gaming, Animals, Art, or Science/Tech, and optionally a language. Every list is still strictly newest first — no ranking and no personalization. A clip is categorized on your device from hashtags, captions, the channel or source, and known source packs (for example comedy YouTube channels, or a PeerTube search for “funny”). Your choice is kept in the address bar (?cat=funny) and this tab's session only, not in a cookie. Duplicate clips and explicit content are still removed.
Rules that apply to everything
- Languages: every card shows its language. The tag comes from the post's own language setting (Bluesky, Mastodon, the newsroom's feed), otherwise from a quick guess made on your device. Pick one or more languages in the Languages row; the choice stays on your device. “Translate” opens Google Translate in a new tab only when you tap it, so nothing is sent anywhere automatically.
- No adult content: porn, nudity and sexual content are not allowed anywhere on Open Current. Posts are dropped (not blurred) when a network labels or flags them (Bluesky porn/sexual/nudity labels on the post or the account, Mastodon and Misskey sensitive media, Lemmy NSFW, PeerTube NSFW, Nostr content warnings and labels), when they link to adult sites, or when their text, image descriptions, hashtags or account names contain explicit words (in many languages). An account caught once is hidden for the rest of your visit. Unreviewed Wikimedia Commons uploads and Nostr images are never displayed. The checks run on your device and on our relay with local lists; nothing is sent anywhere. No filter is perfect: please use Report on anything that slips through.
- Secure links only: Open Current only shows secure (https) links and blocks shorteners and known scam patterns. The check runs on your device and on our relay with a built-in list — no third-party lookups. Every outside link shows its real website name and opens in a new tab with no referrer.
- Order: newest first by publish time. Live posts are inserted at their exact time.
- Pace: at Flow speed about 1 post per second is shown. Springs take turns (round-robin) so one firehose can't drown the rest; within a spring the oldest waiting post goes first. Anything that can't be shown is dropped, not re-ordered. The Flow meter in Reader settings shows exactly how many posts arrived vs. were shown, per spring.
- Topics ("Currents"): keyword or hashtag matches (for example the Crypto current matches bitcoin, ethereum, solana, defi, stablecoin…; Memes matches meme, memes, shitpost, me_irl…; Art matches art, digital art, illustration, painting, drawing, pixel art, generative art, photography, NFT art, arte, kunst, イラスト, 絵… and only shows posts with images). The Art current is stricter about adult content: posts with any content warning, sensitive flag or label, or wording such as nude, NSFW, lewd or figure/life drawing are hidden, and live Bluesky art waits about 20 seconds to be re-checked against Bluesky moderation and the artist's profile before it can show. Art publication headlines come through our cached relay as links only (no thumbnails). Never a personal profile.
- Your own filters (mute words, language, media-only, hide replies, data saver) are saved only on your device.
- Safety: NSFW/sensitive media is behind a tap; Bluesky moderation labels and deletions are honored; Nostr deletion requests are honored.
- Relays: some publishers block browsers from reading their feeds, so a tiny Open Current relay fetches a fixed list of public feeds and caches them for 3–60 minutes (so the site stays on free hosting). It can't be pointed at other sites, stores nothing and logs nothing. World desks include regional newsrooms across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, the Nordics, the Arctic and Antarctica, plus climate, health, official filings, legal and education feeds — only items with real publish times, newest first.
Not included (and why)
Reddit and TikTok (blocked to outside readers), X (paid API, about $216/month for 1 post a minute), AP (blocks feed readers), Twitch live (needs an API secret), Imgur and 9GAG (need keys / unreachable).
Open Current shows posts from other sites and links back to them; it doesn't host them.