Discover feedback thread! If you have something to say, let me know here. Likely a lot of it will be “yep, we know” because we all dogfood it a lot, but also theres a lot more of you out there.
you might be hitting the same problem that i did before, which is that “show less” didn’t have effect on posts pulled into from a generic “popular on the network” segment. the fix for that is in testing
It does sometimes feel like you need to work for it. It's doing the classic algorithm thing where it's more deranking an account rather than getting you out of a bubble.
This is exactly what I want too. I read everything in Following, I don't need to see them again in Discover. Bonus if it can not show anything they retweeted too.
There are a *lot* of new accounts and first posts. I'm not opposed to some, but the quantity is very high.
There are a weirdly high number of (untagged) nudes. I'm no prude, but like I don't interact with it much so idk why the algorithm is serving it to me.
The number of posts from people I follow is pretty high.
It seems to have picked a few people I don't follow or interact with much and serve them very frequently, like a ghost "following" page.
There are interests that I don't think it's picked up on, like I see less art than newfies.
untagged nudes is really weird, i don't get any of that. If if comes up again feel free to DM me a link and I can check out why they made it in (for science).
If you "show less" on a couple "first post" type posts you should get less from that segment.
a few suggestions:
1. allow big accounts to opt out of "discoverability," so they don't get swarmed by weird replies from new people.
2. allow hiding posts you've liked (since that means you've already seen them)
3. tweak how often posts from a single account show up, so it's less repetitive.
I wish there was a limit on how far back Discover showed posts. Maybe something set by the user, maybe a standard of 24 hr? Seems to me that posts more than a few days old really don't need to be there, anyway.
My opinion, anyway.
the max age on a post shown to you should be about 40 hours, i'd love it to be configurable too, but also sometimes theres just not a lot of 'high interest' stuff you havent seen yet and the choice is either 'show older stuff' or 'show stuff you might not like'
Maybe once we reach the bottom, a button, the algo has shown what you like based on your interaction. Beta feature if you'd like to see more posts we think you might like and you can help train your personal algo. (With a ❌✔️ under each post)
That sounds like it's worth trying
Also, something like a ✔️❌ underneath/near the post would be a lot more discoverable than the Show more/show less in the post context menu
It would be nice if the Discover feed was open source so others can make suggestions and even contribute to it in order to help make it even better. I can understand why you may be wary of doing that, though.
A lot of the components of it get worked on and trialed in my personal feeds here: github.com/whyrusleepin...
Discover itself is pulling in posts from various components that are shaped like the different pieces of algoz.
Ohh! I’m going to check this out then! I’ve always wanted to understand what goes inside these things so seeing Bluesky’s own algorithm would be perfect for me to read. Thanks!
Thx! I’m basically here for tech content but my discover is mostly snark, memes, cat pics, and crap lime that. 😔 I’m trying g to train it but there’s barely anything I can “show more of”. Closest seems to be people whining about Windows 11… which ain’t my jam.
odd, there was a change that was supposed to do that exactly once IFF you were an old account that didn't follow enough people, but it shouldn't do it repeatedly.
