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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 6h

Try For You as an alternative: bsky.app/profile/spac...

spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 6h

Try For You as an alternative: bsky.app/profile/spac... For You finds people who liked the same posts as you, and shows you what else they’ve liked recently. Right now For You will be sparse because you have only two likes - as you like more you will see better recommendations.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 7h

Try For You as an alternative: bsky.app/profile/spac... For You finds people who liked the same posts as you, and shows you what else they’ve liked recently. "Show less like this" is effective in For You - it disconnects you from people who liked that post.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 7h

See foryou.club/explain - it will show you which of your past likes lead to a post being shown in your For You.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 16h

Your app seems to be in a broken state. That state is probably stored somewhere on your phone. I'd try clearing app data or reinstalling it.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 17h

Weird! Are you using the default Bluesky client? Is it iOS or Android? If you try opening bsky.app in your browser - do you also start off from the For You feed page? @samuel.fm is this your area?

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 17h

I hope you are not trolling me :) How do you open the app? Maybe you bookmarked the link to the feed and open Bluesky through that bookmark?

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 17h

You only need to have enough likes to make it work since For You is based on your likes. It doesn't "know" who you follow.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 17h

You are looking at the feed page - it is not added to your pinned feeds (see the pin in the top right corner is no highlighted). I think you just need to press the left arrow button in the top left to get to your home screen.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 18h

Can you tell me more? What do you want to remove? A screenshot would be super-helpful.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 18h

The usage pattern of the Daylight version exactly matches the regular For You:

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 18h

Context for the two versions: bsky.app/profile/fory...

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 18h

Fun fact - the After Dark version is indeed used relatively less during the day (11am to 7pm ET) than the Daylight version.

A graph showing per hour % of request volume of the two feeds.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 18h

Try For You as an alternative: bsky.app/profile/spac...

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 18h

Try For You - it has a functional "show less like this" and you don't need to use it much to begin with. bsky.app/profile/spac...

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 18h

Never fear: bsky.app/profile/spac...

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 18h

You can tell For You to ignore some of your likes: bsky.app/profile/spac...

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 18h

I've got you: bsky.app/profile/fory...

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 18h

What client is this for? Try using For You: bsky.app/profile/spac...

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 18h

Try For You: bsky.app/profile/spac...

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 18h

Try For You: bsky.app/profile/spac... It is mostly gaming and art based on your likes.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 18h

Here is the link: bsky.app/profile/spac...

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

The simpler explanation as always turns out to be the most likely. However, I see people complaining not only about stale content, but the quality of content got worse: bsky.app/search?q=%22... Could it be that the seen post tracking is forcing it to lower the bar to return something?

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

For me it seems to show older and older posts in chronological order on each refresh. That is, the top of the feed shows 10h old posts, then on next refresh 12h. I don't think it has always been like that. It could also be a bug somewhere.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

It looks like "Popular With Friends" stopped being chronological for many people. Is this where Bluesky experimenting with an new algorithmic feed? If true, then why experiment on that feed instead of Discover where users already expect it to be non-chronological?

Search results for "popular with friends" with 4 people in a row complaining about it changing.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Hmm, I don't see it on my end. Maybe it was on another account?

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

That's an option, but it would still be endless. What if we add a user-configurable limit of 100 posts per day seen in For You?

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Or do something crazy like private set intersection? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private...

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Private set intersection - Wikipedia

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A challenge for storing negative signals - is you don't want to make it publicly visible. But if you want to calculate co-dislikes then you have to be able to join dislikes of multiple users. So it cannot be stored all locally. Maybe you store it in encrypted/hashed form?

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Yes. You don't have to have wide adoption for this to be useful. It can be useful in a single-player mode as well: you dislike one reply with 100 likes and you record that the 100 likers are less worthy of your trust to surface good replies for you.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

For trying things out, consider the reply section sorting with the dislike button. The hidden replies section is a great UI for the spam folder concept. You put replies with negative enough score there.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

In general, I think you need to approach this from the incentives structures design perspective. There need to be the right feedback loops. If you do good at moderating content for me - I trust it more. If you fail me - I trust you less.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

What if I identify such posts and show them to you on foryou.club/spam so you can review if those posts were indeed not worth your attention?

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

You know what could be cool? For You returns posts to you that you may like. Your server/client applies blocklists, mutes filters. The filtered out posts don't get seen by you. The feed does not get "seen" interactions for such posts.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

If it was wrong then you can trace it to who is responsible for this. You can then decide if you want to keep trusting them. Are you thinking of this for your client? I think it could be a great place to experiment.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

An issue with blocklists is that they are on or off. If content is completely hidden from you - how can you verify whether the blocklist did the right thing? What could help is if you get to see what was hidden from you so you can then say whether it was right or wrong. Like the Spam folder.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

At first I read "compostable"... I think it looks like collaborative curation but in reverse - you bury content based on shared dislikes. Collaborative moderation. I posted about it here as applied to reply ranking: bsky.app/profile/spac...

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Try For You as an alternative: bsky.app/profile/spac...

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

That's weird! I thought it was supposed to be posts that get enough likes from your follows sorted chronologically. I refresh it and I see older and older posts.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

That's the beauty of algorithmic choice! If you don't mind, can you elaborate why the For You feed specifically is destructive to humanity? Here is what it does: it finds people who liked the same posts as you, and shows you what else they’ve liked recently.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I think this experiment would be good: - Control: Following + Discover - Treatment: Following + Discover + For You I should comfortably handle +200K daily active users, if Bluesky is up for this. @pfrazee.com @alexbenzer.com

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I don't think that's feasible - Discover does have advantage for cold-start users because it knows what interests they selected during onboarding. For You has it's own onboarding flow to compensate for this: bsky.app/profile/spac...

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

For 1 - try For You: bsky.app/profile/spac... You can adjust it by liking posts that match your interests and using "show less like this" on the ones that don't.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

For You specifically: bsky.app/profile/spac... There is a huge selection bias, so you cannot directly compare For You users vs the rest.

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