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. You…
Dynamic time decay - For You notes
The For You feed has felt a bit too static because older posts (posted 12-24 hours ago) tend to sit at the top as they have more time to accumulate more likes. To make it surface fresher content more often I applied an exponential time decay with a half-life of 6 hours.
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects1. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk’s platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users’ feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
For You · Most Liked Custom Feed on Bluesky
For You is the most liked custom feed on Bluesky. It finds people who liked the same posts as you and shows you what else they’ve liked recently.
How to reclaim your attention from the distraction economy | Psyche Videos
Could you watch this video on full screen, 1x speed, with no distractions? Here are five steps to rebuild your attention span
Spark - Take back your timeline
Social media is addictive and manipulative. It's time for social that puts the user in control.
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hearkening back to the cozy vibes of old-web neighborhoods
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I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve achieved something and genuinely felt lasting satisfaction.
Browse the best social headers in the Atmosphere - Social Headers
Follow us on Bluesky to get served the hottest headers every other day.
Facebook and Instagram losing users, with signs pointing to low-quality feeds
Anecdotally, I’ve been hearing for a very long time that Facebook and Instagram users are growing ever more dissatisfied with...
TOKIMEKI Diary
A private personal archive that automatically syncs your Bluesky posts, likes, and reposts — with a calendar, full-text search, and insights to look back on.
Bluesky "For You" feed playground
This page shows recommendations generated by the For You custom feed. The algorithm has three simple steps:
Phantom Fluency
Why listening to smart people doesn't make you more thoughtful. You're not bad at remembering podcasts. Podcasts are bad at being remembered.
I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed | James Randall
I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things
Making my blog feel like other people are here - keith.is
I wired my homepage up with playhtml so dragging a sticker, waving the hand, or starting a song all happen for everyone who's on the page at the same time. Notes on what I built and why I keep chasing this "we're all here together" feeling.
Anti-democratic attitudes are highly contagious, new psychology study finds
The rise of anti-democratic sentiments might be driven by social contagion. Researchers have discovered that citizens often adapt their personal support for authoritarian rule to align with the political views of those around them.
You have more ways to connect than ever, but deep friendship feels hard to find – here’s how to build better connections
Despite being more connected than any previous generation, many young people report struggling to build friendships that provide a genuine sense of closeness.
