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Patricia Lee
@patriciaxlee.eth
Sharing an amusing experience I had recently, in case it helps with UX improvement. I plan to delete this cast once the issue (raised by others too) gets acknowledged in some way. I often see “User A” in my Home feed. I don’t follow them. Content isn’t spammy or offensive - just not my preference. I figured not interacting would signal disinterest to the algorithm, but "User A" shows up a lot. The other day, their cast was the first one in my Home feed. I finally decided to tap “Show fewer like this” and refreshed the feed. A different cast from this user showed up as the first one in my Home feed, again. I tapped "Shower fewer like this" again. Refreshed again. Yet another cast from the same user was the first in my Home feed (third time in a row!). This time I gave up, accepted the algorithm's sense of humor, and decided to keep scrolling. But this third cast was a very short video. The audio glitched and kept playing even as I scrolled. I switched to the Following tab, Trending tab, navigated to channels. The audio kept playing on a loop (agh). So I ended up force-quitting the app. I still see casts from this user. I'm aware the other tool available is mute, but haven't used it yet. Muting feels too blunt. I don’t want to avoid DCs from this individual. I just want my Home feed to closer resemble my preferences. Two things would be very appreciated: 1) Clarification on how the current controls work (most immediate need) 2) A middle ground between "mute" and "show more of this" (not urgent for my experience but a nice to have) This is not a judgment on any content here. I know my content is not everyone's cup of tea. I really wouldn’t want anyone stuck seeing it at the top of their feed after expressing repeatedly they don't want it. I appreciate anyone reading this. Long live Farcaster. Other casts noting similar issue: - https://farcaster.xyz/horsefax.eth/0xa9b5250d - https://farcaster.xyz/0x-omen.eth/0xbd80c0dd - https://farcaster.xyz/kylepatrick.eth/0x52555611 - https://farcaster.xyz/pichi/0x10a073f1
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ted (not lasso)
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thanks for reporting this. please don't delete (yet!). i think our current "show fewer like this" takes 3 taps, and seems like that's far too many if you're expecting it to change after once and think it's broken if you have to do it twice. appreciate you articulating this so well!
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Patricia Lee
@patriciaxlee.eth
Thanks Ted for reading. Good to know about the three taps. I appreciate also how challenging this logic is to decide. Below is simply to illustrate that appreciation. Hypothetically this user and I both like birds. I like birds in my feed, but maybe not *their* birds or the way they tend to cast about birds. So I don’t want birds disappearing entirely - just theirs. This user and I also have mutual friends. Those friends like that user’s bird content, but I don’t want to see that content. Yet I want to see what my friends are doing and don’t want them to disappear from my feed. I’m sure this is only the tip of the iceberg that’s the headache of figuring out an algorithm. All to say, I respect the experiments.
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