For You notes

In Making For You pay more attention to your older likes I tried to address a common complaint about For You - that it was too reactive to recent likes.

Two weeks ago I started an experiment to use adult content labels in the For You algorithm with the goal to reduce the amount of unwanted content: NSFW in For You - For You notes Today I'm sharing the results of the experiment: 4.6% fewer users press "show

Common feedback about 💖For You is that it is too reactive to your most recent likes: View post on Bluesky View post on Bluesky View post on Bluesky To make it pay attention to your past likes I tested out a change where I give 10x less weight to your most…

NSFW content has been a source of complaints and "show less like this" interactions on 💖For You.

When For You started I didn't have a way to tell which posts the user has seen.