favoritism — who likes who more?

Enter two Bluesky handles. favoritism reads each account's whole like history and shows who likes the other's posts more — every liked post, with its reply context, laid out side by side.

substandard-recs

We'll ask permission to read your likes from the last 30 days and match you with long-form writing published on Standard.site. Your recommendations page will be public.

nonstandard-recs

We'll ask permission to read your likes from the last 30 days and match you with long-form writing published on Standard.site. Your recommendations page will be public.

spacecowboy (@spacecowboy17.bsky.social)

PSA: you can find out which of your likes caused For You to show any given post at foryou.club/explain Just enter the post URL and hit "Explain":

For You by @spacecowboy17.bsky.social

A personalized algorithmic feed based on your likes. It finds people who liked the same posts as you, and shows you what else they've liked recently. https://foryou.club

standard-recs

We'll ask permission to read your likes from the last 30 days and match you with long-form writing published on Standard.site. Your recommendations page will be public.

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