Features
Feed
Your home stream of posts from people and pages you follow, plus a discover view.
Two feeds
Public has two main feeds you can switch between:
- Following — posts from accounts and pages you follow.
- Discover — public posts from across Public, regardless of who you follow.
Discover demotes posts that contain external links or email addresses other than first-party URLs and emails (public.kim, publicapp.in) and allowlisted embeds (YouTube, Instagram, X, Facebook video). Those posts stay off the newest and random slots until they earn enough engagement to appear in the quality pool. They still show on Following and the author's profile.
Above the posts, a Status bar shows your contacts' Status updates from the last 24 hours.
On the web
- URLs:
/news/following(default) and/news/public(Discover). - The desktop sidebar links to Following feed and Public feed.
- A composer sits above the feed on desktop so you can post without leaving the page.
- Posts load with infinite scroll, 10 at a time. When you reach the end of Following, you'll see You're all caught up! and a button to View public feed.
- The right sidebar (on wide screens) shows People you may know, Pages to follow, and Trending Topics.
On Android
- The Home tab opens your feed. The top bar has icons for switching between Public posts and Following posts.
- Pull down to refresh.
- Tap the bell icon to open Notifications, or the + icon (Add Post) to compose.
- When you reach the end of Following, you'll see an All caught up! card with a View public feed button.
What you can do on each post
See Posts for like, comment, save, share, edit, delete, and report actions.