Creating Custom Bluesky Feeds is Weirdly Hard

Having been on Bluesky fairly casually for a while now, I largely just use the home feed which I mostly keep to Pokemon and a secondary feed that was a list of Nerdfighters. But for October's NerdfArter drawings one of my dear friends from Nerdfighteria requested a custom feed to compile the posts to easily follow the tag without needing to click through to the tag search each time they wanted to peruse. As the saying goes, "We did it not because it was easy, but because we thought it would be easy". I've tried a few different sources that were recommended as a way to build the feed since "Filter to anything with this tag" seems easy enough that it shouldn't involve standing up my own server just to host this search. I started with blueskyfeedgenerator.com - which at least was theoretically working since I got an automated email when I registered, but never pulled any posts in. Next I moved on to skyfeed which worked! Kind of... For a few days at least it seemed to be working. There…