You should now see less unwanted adult content in your For You feed.

🐇🐇🐇 I need to keep in mind that the hyper-focus of For You is sometimes desirable so I don't overcompensate when addressing the negative feedback about it.

Checking the results of the A/B test after 5 days - we are already statistically significant at reducing the number of users who press "show less like this" in For You. A 5% reduction! 11% fewer "show less like this" interactions 0.7% more likes on posts 0.3% fewer feed loads per user

Running out of people complaining about Discover on Bluesky to convert to For You. Pivoting to X users:

Acorn covered as an alternative to X Communities: techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/a...

This new video does a good job explaining the self-supervision loss used in JEPA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYkI...

Time for another A/B test

Created a landing page for the For You feed at foryou.club It describes how the feed works, has pointers to related tools like the "For You Rewind" feed and features Bluesky posts with positive feedback from the users. Feel free to point others to that page. Please suggest what else I could add.

Two Bluesky client apps have integrated the "also liked" functionality: - @boostblue.bsky.social - iOS and Android - @skywalker.thereforeiam.eu - Android The app integration makes it a much smoother experience than the stand-alone website foryou.club/also-liked Here is how it looks in Boost Blue:

Explained some details on how I run For You. The key ingredient is ✨tailscale✨ :)

I agree, the "also liked" functionality would be useful in the client app. I imagine it in the post details view under the replies.

Introducing a new way to explore Bluesky: foryou.club/also-liked Enter a post URL to see what other posts people who liked it also like. For example, enter the url of this art post: bsky.app/profile/alar... and you will get a bunch more art posts: foryou.club/also-liked?p...

Got a swanky domain for the For You feed: foryou.club Moved the related pages there: - your feed usage stats as the main page: foryou.club - playground: foryou.club/playground (the old links from linklonk.com should continue to work)

I have been running this test for more than a month and finished it today. The statistically significant result is that users are 2.6% less likely to press "show less like this" 🎉 - 5.7% more "show more" interactions: 41,425 -> 43,795 (+2,370) - 5.2% fewer "show less": 169,848 -> 160,938 (-8,910)

For You is exposed to the internet through a VPS running on OVH. OVH is telling me that they detected a DDoS attack and started applying filtering. Not sure what to make of that. But happy to have OVH handling that.

I liked this thread: bsky.app/profile/gui.... It highlights that the power of the platform is in the API access it exposes and controls. The great thing about ATproto is that most of the data is freely accessible: posts, likes, follows. 🧵

Started an A/B test for this idea. On each feed load For You uses a random sample of 500 likes out of you recent 5000 likes. The idea is to make your recommendations more diverse.

For You will be down for 10-20 minutes. I want to change my RAM speed in bios from 4800 to 6000 in case it helps the feed load a bit faster. For the last week I've been running Gnome from the fresh Ubuntu install and I need to go back to MATE.

The results are in. Statistically significant user-level metrics: 0.4% more users like something in the feed 6.7% more users hit "show less like this" The question is: are 17,008 extra likes worth 2,647 extra "show less like this"? Probably not

For You will be down for ~1-2 hours as I replace the system drive. The Kingston NV2 drive has been freezing up the computer - often for a minute at a time and sometimes indefinitely until a manual restart. I'm replacing it with a Samsung 990 Pro, which should be more stable.

For You was down for 3 hours 40 minutes. The cause: the system SSD (Kingston NV2, SM2267XT) controller hanged and never restarted. It has been hanging periodically but always recovering in less than a minute. But this time it hasn't recovered. It looks like I will need to replace the system drive

Here is a very rough version of the For You Stats dashboard: linklonk.com/foryou It shows you 3 things: - how much you've been using For You - how many views and likes your posts got in For You - how your likes/reposts helped surface posts to other people in For You Feedback welcome

Added the "corater decay" parameter to the feed as described in the quoted thread. Values: - 0 has no effect. - 0.2 discounts second most recent like by 20%, third most recent like gets discounted twice by 20%, etc. - 1 - only their most recent like has any weight.

I'm thinking of building a logged in version of the For You playground: linklonk.com/bluesky It could have some personal stats and settings. What would you like to see/do on that page?

Yes, For You was down for 30 minutes - the computer hanged and I had to reboot it to bring it up again. Not clear what caused it. One option is that there is an issue with power management. My system drive already used to have random hangs for ~30-60 seconds due to power state transitions.

A small tweak to reduce "Show less like this" in For You by 36%

The For You feed will be down for a few minutes. I need to restart the computer to try resolve Steam segfaults (probably another nvidia driver update?) Will use this opportunity to enable RAM EXPO profile (4800 -> 6000) which got reset during the CPU upgrade.

@jaz.sh either your dashboard has a glitch (more likely) or Bluesky has become super popular today (🤞) bsky.jazco.dev/stats

Tested today how much difference the 3D V-cache makes for For You and 3D V-Cache is indeed helpful. When I pin the algorithm to run only on CCD 0 (3D V-Cache) I get 25% faster runtime than when running on CCD 1 (standard cache) So it did make sense to get 9950X3D instead of the 9950X.

For You has become the most liked feed: bluefacts.app/feeds/top Thanks everyone who gave it a like! Liking a feed may seem meaningless, but I think it does matter to the feed creators. It definitely has been motivating for me. Consider going over the feeds you have pinned and giving them a like!

Wrapping up another For You experiment. This time I've been testing a change that spreads apart posts from the same author or posts quoting the same post. Context: bsky.app/profile/spac...

How about this? "If you are reading this, you've opened For You 100+ times without liking the feed🙀 If you enjoy it, tap ❤️ on the feed page to help others discover it!"

🤦‍♂️Sorry, For You was down due to a new code change that I implemented yesterday and I discovered the feed was down this morning.

For You is down due to the migration to a new VPS server. Trying to figure out what is wrong. It was very close to working out but Claude went off rails a bit :)

I'm using a VPS on OVH to host linklonk.com which serves the For You feed. The real processing is happening on my home PC and the VPS is mostly responsible for proxying the traffic. It means that the VPS can be fairly small: 2 vCores, 4GB ram, 80GB storage has been fine for my needs.

We appreciate where your priorities are!

Fun fact, playing Overwatch increases For You response time from 90ms to 115ms.

In For You I started tracking the post author and the quoted post id. I want to use these to improve the diversity of For You. What do you think should be the distance: 1. between posts of the same author 2. between quotes of the same post ?

This appears to be common feedback. Also, content with most "show less like this" appears to be NSFW content. I'm adding tracking of self-tagged and Bluesky moderation labels on posts. With this information I should be able to demote/filter NSFW labeled content if you have not liked such content.

It would be great if Bluesky published the IP addresses that they use to make requests to feed generators. I'd like to increase the per-ip request limits. Right now I watch the Nginx error logs and add them one at a time. So far I've got: 67.213.161.34 209.249.133.122 38.120.64.66 147.123.139.102

Made some improvements that should help For You handle such load spikes in the future: 1. 2x more powerful CPU 2. Bigger in-memory cache sizes so we don't need to read from the DB for >99% of the requests 3. Use a simpler version of the algorithm when under load

Here are the results of the quoted experiment after 9 days: - 5.6% fewer users are pressing "show less like this" (statistically significant with p=0.95) - 7.36% fewer "show less like this" interactions (68,195 -> 63,173) - 1.64% more likes on posts (2,319,961 -> 2,357,938)

The For You feed is going to be down while I'm upgrading the CPU from AMD 7900 (12 core) to AMD 9950X3D (16 core). This should increase how many users it can serve by ~50%-100%. If all goes well it should be back up in an hour or two.

Stay vigilant. I would never solicit money. Thanks @voxdafox.newgrounds.com!

Thanks everyone for offering to pitch in to support the For You feed! I want to keep it as a pure hobby project with no financial side. I'm fine to do this indefinitely, so please don't worry about the sustainability.

The For You feed is overloaded right now. Please try again in a minute or two.

@bsky.app created a featured feed post for For You but it overloaded my computer and they agreed to delete it for now. The request processing time jumped from 0.2s to 50s. It is getting down to 45s, but it is not recovering super well.

The For You feed has been spreading like a wild fire yesterday and today and got 10K likes - which is crazy compared to the 6K likes it accumulated since ~May. Thanks to all the likes, For You overtook the defunct Skygaze feed in the search results - no more confusion about which is the real one.

Here is why Bluesky is seeing a lot of activity today: