I'm thinking how to make a Turbo subscription more valuable. How about search functionality through the posts you liked? It's not something that exists already, right? Another option: search through the posts you've seen in For You - an upgrade for the Rewind feed.

I've seen a few people complain about the stuck post on top of For You. I think we can fix it: github.com/bluesky-soci...

Fix web feed viewability rootMargin to avoid deadzone at top of feed by spacecowboy37 · Pull Request #12405 · bluesky-social/social-app

Summary In List.web.tsx, ON_ITEM_SEEN_INTERSECTION_OPTS used rootMargin: '-200px 0px -200px 0px'. Because rootMargin insets the viewport bounding box, setting -200px at the top creates a 20...

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David Marcos@noz.am · 2d ago

this post is stuck at the top of my For You feed 😭

Good job! I recreated the same graph for For You. I imagine moving the like rate further will be much harder. I'm curious to see the "show less like this" rate graph. Will overlay mine if you do.

Let's try filtering politics out of your For You feed. If you are a For You 🔋Turbo subscriber, you can enable this setting in foryou.club/profile

Jaxon Evans@jaxonevans.social · 2w ago

Topic analysis filters would be really cool. I’d love the ability to hide all political content in For You, for example.

Playing with SVD of the likes graph to learn embeddings for accounts and posts. To visualize the 64 dimensional space of posts I use t-SNE which puts posts that are close together in the original 64d close in the 2d, but it does not try to preserve non-local structure.

I added a few customization options for For You Turbo subscribers: 1. filter out posts with too few or too many likes 2. filter out posts by age - if you want fresher than the default 3. filter out posts by accounts you previously "show less like this" foryou.club/profile

If you are building an atproto app, you can consume the Atmosphere feed via XRPC! It closely follows app.bsky.feed.getFeedSkeleton, but returns atproto records (not Bluesky posts) and supports filtering by NSID: foryou.club/xrpc/club.fo... Lexicon schema: pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...

at://foryou.club/com.atproto.lexicon.schema/club.foryou.feed.getFeedSkeleton

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The rate of requests to For You has increased significantly. It was usually ~27 requests per second at this time of day and today it is ~35 QPS. Is it US politics?

What would be good bonus features that I could offer to For You Turbo subscribers? Maybe some extra configuration options?

Investigating an out of bounds error. "panic: runtime error: index out of range [-1]"

Another perk for being a For You Turbo subscriber: foryou.club/follow shows people who appear a lot in For You but you don't follow them yet. The bar shows what percentage of their posts you are seeing in For You, so you can get a sense of the extra volume if you follow them.

spacecowboy@spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you would like to support the For You feed, you can now subscribe for $5/month. Perks for being a subscriber: - My living room pc works 2x harder to build your feed - You can exclude posts from people you follow, or mix their posts into For You foryou.club/turbo

If you would like to support the For You feed, you can now subscribe for $5/month. Perks for being a subscriber: - My living room pc works 2x harder to build your feed - You can exclude posts from people you follow, or mix their posts into For You foryou.club/turbo

For You got quite a bit faster and more efficient in October - the average latency dropped from 100ms to 27ms.

For You returns posts and then your client decides which ones to show to you based on your blocks, muted words, adult content settings, content languages. A lot of these are very intentional, but one common foot gun is Settings > Languages > Content languages.

The Easter egg was too subtle for anyone to recognize it. Here is a gradual reveal. At which point are you able to see it yet it is not too obvious?

spacecowboy@spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 3w ago

Spent too much time creating the preview image for: foryou.club/atmosphere I pulled the current profile pics of the Bluesky accounts for each of the apps that the cross-lexicon For You feed shows. Not sure what's the deal with @pckt.blog Can you spot an Easter egg?

Next For You feature: show a list of top posters that appear most in For You but you don't follow them yet. Repost if you want to see it.

How PodQ works: 1. See a podcast episode on Bluesky 2. Reply @podq.foryou.club, or like an existing tag 3. Add your feed from podq.foryou.club to your podcast app Your queue is public at podq.foryou.club/yourhandle

Testing a thing - mention this bot under any podcast episode post and it will add it to your personal RSS feed - so you can listen to it in your favorite player.

PodQ 🎧 Podcast queue@podq.foryou.club · 3w ago

Episode queued up: podq.foryou.club/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/rss (like the @podq.foryou.club post to add to your queue)

Spent too much time creating the preview image for: foryou.club/atmosphere I pulled the current profile pics of the Bluesky accounts for each of the apps that the cross-lexicon For You feed shows. Not sure what's the deal with @pckt.blog Can you spot an Easter egg?

Atmosphere For You

Articles, code repos, events, bookmarks, music, photos, books, movies, livestreams and apps from across atproto, picked by people who like the same Bluesky posts as you.

foryou.club

The number of people who enabled "Ask apps to hide my posts from algorithmic recommendations" is at 62,669 since the setting was launched in August. After the launch spike it was steadily going down for 8 days, but then jumped to a steady ~900 accounts per day - strangely uniform.

The last few weeks show a steady growth of likes, while the number of posts and likers has remained relatively stable. Potentially the Discover feed algorithm getting better. I've seen some positive sentiment towards Discover in "Discover feed" search results.

My internet was down.

Alex Becker@alexcbecker.net · 4w ago

oh no @spacecowboy17.bsky.social must have tripped over the cord...

It would be cool to get podcast episode discovery powered by atproto. Imagine all your episode plays get recorded similar to teal.fm for songs The biggest issue with podcasting is that it is not an inherently shareable medium. Automatic play tracking and collaborative discovery can change that.

spacecowboy@spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 4w ago

Psst, foryou.club/atmosphere

How about a Gacha For You - on each pull it adds top 10 posts on top of your feed? To identify already seen posts I can mark them with a pin. It then requires effort to load the "next page". No more infinite scroll and a sense of stability from having already seen posts below.

Psst, foryou.club/atmosphere

spacecowboy@spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For You but cross-lexicon: find people who liked the same Bluesky posts as you and show you what they: - liked on standard.site - starred on tangled - rsvp'ed on atmo.rsvp - saved on semble.so - listened to on teal.fm - etc

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

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?

I'm going to run a new experiment in For You and I'm learning about the fascinating subject of counterfactual logging.

Beta-testing a new version of For You that brings you posts with links to academic papers: bsky.app/profile/spac... Feedback welcome!