Re-balancing For You
Re-balancing For You
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 like one cat post and your For You is now all cats. The solution was to give less weight to your most recent likes. Specifically, 10x less weight compared to the oldest likes.
Reducing "show less like this" by 11% with NSFW filtering
Reducing "show less like this" by 11% with NSFW filtering
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:
Making For You pay more attention to your older likes
Making For You pay more attention to your older likes
Common feedback about 💖For You is that it is too reactive to your most recent likes:
NSFW in For You
NSFW in For You
your NSFW ≠ my NSFW
Dynamic time decay
Dynamic time decay
When For You started I didn't have a way to tell which posts the user has seen. When the user refreshed the feed - they would get the same ranking of results.