Interests in ML and social aspects of tech. Building For You feed: https://foryou.club https://bsky.app/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/feed/for-you Hobby project: linklonk.comhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.socialhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mptmbrqsed2nFor You now onboards new users with a curated list of interest posts to like. It's an upgrade over: "go like some posts elsewhere and come back".04 Jul 2026 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mptmbrqsed2nhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mplhgwmpjk2vThe change is live! Thanks @samuel.fm for getting it in and fixing the unit test! @devingaffney.com @aendra.com [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jul 2026 11:54 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mplhgwmpjk2vhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mpivlhc4pc2cCustom feeds can mark some posts as pinned. For You uses it for system messages like "Welcome to the feed" and such. But AppView ignores that flag when it hydrates the feed and the client app does not know which posts should be displayed as pinned. This should fix it: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/pull/516330 Jun 2026 11:29 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpivlhc4pc2chttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mpho57slts2xOk, Bluesky does not pass the user's selected interests to custom feeds like For You. But what if For You has it's own interest picker - show a list of canned posts that name an interest: - art - gaming - tech - atproto ... [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jun 2026 23:43 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpho57slts2xhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mpefptn4bs2xFor You will be down for ~20-60 minutes - I will be upgrading my computer's ram from 96GB to 192GB. I've been hitting uncomfortably high memory usage levels (90%+) and it is time to bite the bullet. I bought an identical kit a year ago and the new kit is exactly 7x more expensive.28 Jun 2026 16:34 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpefptn4bs2xhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mookvrepbk2cIt is easy to assume that everyone who follows you has already heard about For You. I wrote a tool to get the % of your followers who have opened For You at least once. For me it is 85% - and all I talk about is For You 🤔 Reply if you want to see your result.20 Jun 2026 00:09 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mookvrepbk2chttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mobu35otrs27Have you accidentally pressed "show less like this" when you meant "more like this"? Or liked a post that you feel ruined your For You? You can now correct that in foryou.club/profile You can delete your "show more/less" and likes there.14 Jun 2026 22:48 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mobu35otrs27https://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mobfoy2e4k2hFor You seems stuck. Looking what's wrong...14 Jun 2026 18:31 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mobfoy2e4k2hhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mo65dtbrql2hYou can let others view your For You feed: 1. Open foryou.club/profile 2. Press "create peek link" 3. Copy the link and share it with others They would: 1. Open the link and confirm that they want to turn their For You feed into yours 2. Open For You and see what you see until they decide to stop13 Jun 2026 11:23 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo65dtbrql2hhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mo5b2rmklc2hLaunched an improvement to how "show less like this" works in For You. Results from the A/B test: - 7.3% fewer people press "show less" on a given day - 15.5% fewer "show less" interactions Details below 🧵13 Jun 2026 02:57 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo5b2rmklc2hhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mnwpf65oak2kSo close10 Jun 2026 12:25 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnwpf65oak2khttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mnvkjk2w7c2qHow about this - you create a For You "peek" link which other people can use to temporarily turn their For You into your For You. They get to see how you curated your feed.10 Jun 2026 01:25 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnvkjk2w7c2qhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mnmw6bbw6s2dA business model idea for Bluesky: charge people money for a non-lossy Following feed. [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Jun 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnmw6bbw6s2dhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mn6ve4xnr22fSome more data from the For You perspective. This graph uses the date of the first and the last visit of the For You feed users. This is a bit different from Patrick's analysis. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Jun 2026 01:08 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn6ve4xnr22fhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mn663rvzqs2xIf you use a self-hosted PDS then the For You feed was not working very well for you most (or some?) of the time. The issue had to do with the authorization token that For You gets from the Bluesky's AppView. For self-hosted PDS users the token has the "aud" value set to "did:web:api.bsky.app" ...31 May 2026 18:11 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn663rvzqs2xhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mn4a57g5k22kIf your non-Following feeds (For You, Discover) are stuck showing you content in one language then check whether you have Content Languages setting set to that language. To fix it and see content without the language filtering: 1. Go to Settings > Languages 2. Uncheck all "Content Languages"30 May 2026 23:43 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn4a57g5k22khttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mmzpykjesk23The For You feed crashed because my system ran out of 96GB of RAM. I have been running it at close to full capacity.29 May 2026 23:48 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmzpykjesk23https://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mmuslejxs22aA high signal-to-noise interview. Some behind the scenes on FAIR at Meta youtu.be/ngBraLDqzdI https://youtu.be/ngBraLDqzdI28 May 2026 00:51 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmuslejxs22ahttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mms77mhkmc2t@danabra.mov this is related to your curation vs ranking idea [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 May 2026 00:00 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mms77mhkmc2thttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mms6s5buak2iSay you like gardening and woodworking. You like both types of content and your For You feed is a mix of the two. But maybe you have a bit too much gardening and not enough woodworking and right now you would really like to browse some woodworking. What do you do?26 May 2026 23:52 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mms6s5buak2ihttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mmngk7wezs2cPSA: You can now see how many impressions and likes your posts got through the For You feed: foryou.club/stats The stats used to work only for active users of For You. Now they work for everyone.25 May 2026 02:27 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmngk7wezs2chttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mmmyf7pe4s22Updating stereotypes about Bluesky one screenshot at a time. Maybe it is a selection bias of the users who chose to use For You, but politics has been getting less prevalent in For You than before.24 May 2026 22:14 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmmyf7pe4s22https://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mm67doystk2rThe Bluesky outage from the For You perspective: - started around 6:30pm ET - traffic dropping from 25 requests per second down to 3.5 - recovered around 8:40pm19 May 2026 01:09 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm67doystk2rhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mm332ojsnk2qThe X For You algorithm has been published: https://github.com/xai-org/x-algorithm Now we have the answer to how true this statement was: "Grok will literally read every post and watch every video" This was just marketing. There is no Grok reading any posts. 🧵 [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 May 2026 19:14 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm332ojsnk2qhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mm2fbnlnvs25You should now see less unwanted adult content in your For You feed. https://blog.foryou.club/3mm2fbh4vp22r17 May 2026 12:44 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2fbnlnvs25https://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mlxxtipjd227🐇🐇🐇 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. [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 May 2026 13:38 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlxxtipjd227https://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3mleuhudtzc2h https://blog.foryou.club/3mleuhpjz622h08 May 2026 23:18 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mleuhudtzc2hhttps://blacksky.community/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/post/3ml7yexw53k2fChecking 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 [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 00:44 +0000at://did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7yexw53k2f