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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16102424

Hi all,

Quiblr now has personalized post feeds for Lemmy!

I haven't seen a "recommended feed" feature anywhere else in the fediverse but I thought I would take a crack at building it!

My goal was to make a privacy-focused recommendation engine that tailors your experience based on the content you interact with. None of the data leaves your device. You don't even need to log in for it to work

  • You can turn it off or tune your feed in the settings
  • Each post now also includes a show me more/less button

I would LOVE feedback from folks if you get a chance to try it out!

This was really fun to build so let me know if there are any questions!

PS: Let me know if someone else has built this feature for the fediverse - then I will change the title to not claim "the first" lol

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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So it's fully local right? That's a really awesome system then. I'd probably recommend encrypting the data but that's not really necessary

[–] Aurelius@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yup, 100% completely local to your device alone

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand why nobody did it in the past. It makes the experience so much better for normal users. I hope this becomes mainstream. Btw does it have any automatic analytics cache cleaning or something like that (so it doesn't grow 20 gigs of it in a year)? If so, make sure it cleans it periodically and not immediately when a piece of data becomes unneeded. On low end devices frequent write/delete cycles can be an issue

[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can’t go into too much detail, I was working for a recognisable company who was dabbling in the Fediverse with a heavy lean towards empowering the users.

This was high on my list of demands. Along with fine grain controls for what metrics you opt into and what notifications you receive.

Project got gutted early this year.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Hmm that sounded a bit sus to me. I would highly suggest you not to work for unethical companies, mister/miss

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Hate to tell you this, but most companies are varying degrees of unethical. If you write them all off you'd never have a job.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nah, if you're patient and good at what you do, you can find work for an ethical org.

But it helps not having kids to feed

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Brother, a lot of people go months without being able to find a job at all...

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It might take years of applying for about 20 jobs per day across a few continents of cities to find an ethical one. It takes time.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, not everyone can afford to be perpetually looking for new jobs like it's a job while not having a job...

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 4 months ago

It helps when you live in a car

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Your decisions are your decisions. My job is to promote ethics and to interrupt the work of unethical companies. Being ignorant and working for evil companies just for convenience is not good imo

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago

It's not fucking "convenience", it's your livelihood. Check your privilege.

[–] degen@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Apologies for the late comment. So this is a full-fledged frontend like photon or alexandrite, but with this recommendation engine built in? On first glance, it looks so much more responsive and lightweight! I'm really wondering what you've done that other big frontends haven't lol, no broken images or anything! If you do end up going open source, I might consider actually contributing to something for once. I'd love to help build out some features.

Edit: After using it for a few minutes, wtf, it's snappier than lemmy itself. And the community search, wow! Maybe a pretty ui does something to perception, I dunno. I am assuming you have barrels of cache lol.

[–] Aurelius@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I appreciate all the kind words! You are correct that it is a frontend with recommendation engine built in. And the speed likely comes from being a progressive web app.

There are tradeoffs, but it definitely makes thinks "snappier" :)

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How do you pay for costs? Will there be donations or a premium feature?

[–] Aurelius@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I use Kofi for donations (button in the top bar). I build and pay for everything myself so support is appreciated!

[–] Guadin@k.fe.derate.me 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Never heard of Quiblr but I really like the look and feel of. Also great that you added a "For you page". Any chance you can add kbin/mbin instances? Is Quiblr like a frontend which pulls data from other instances or is it an other fediverse piece of software? And are we able to selfhost Quiblr?

[–] Aurelius@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Quiblr is purely a frontend. It creates a standardized experience across Instances (including the feed personalization). Im not super familiar with Kbin. If it uses the same API as Lemmy then it should work.

Long-term, I'd love to integrate more and more fediverse platforms into Quiblr

[–] Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A dedicated webview on fdroid would be cool, for those of us that dont keep cookies and such

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Your browser should have an option for per-site cookie permissions.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Aaaand its empty. Intentionally.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My list of places where I allow cookies

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I know. That's the problem. Instead of asking for and installing an app, maybe just enable cookies for that site? That's far less intrusive.

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The app shouldn't be intrusive, if its a good app

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago

The point is, you're asking the dev to take the time to create and maintain an app, when you could just tick a box to enable cookies and use the PWA instead...

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is it just a front-end or are there backend changes?

I like it for the most part. I dislike that you can't find the real URL of anything though

[–] Aurelius@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

All front-end.

And thanks for the feedback. Can you elaborate what you mean by "can't find the real URL of anything"?

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So I opened the link and was scrolling through the front page and eventually saw a community that I'd never seen before, so I wanted to take a look. I opened it and couldn't see what instance it was hosted on. When I tried to share it to myself, it still wouldn't give me the original instance URL. I found that super frustrating.

[–] Aurelius@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I pushed an update to Quiblr. I added the instance detail to the Communities page. Additionally, the vertical 3 dot ellipses on each post has an option called Post Detail >> I added the original post url here

Let me know if you have any additional feedback!

[–] Aurelius@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Gotcha. That should be an easy addition. I'll see if I can push an update tonight!

Edit: I noted this in a separate comment, but I added the instance info to the communities page + the original post url to the Post Details page (via the 3 dot ellipses)

[–] spiritedpause@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Wow this is such a clean and snappy Lemmy client, may become my new daily driver!

The "For You" feed looks like it has a similar focus as the one I have on Agora, which is a webapp for following people across the "extended Fediverse" as I call it (Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, Nostr).

The For You feed on Agora utilizes a fork of the open source FediAlgo library to create a feed that combines interesting posts from people you follow, as well as friends of friends, and it learns your preferences based on whose content you like/boost.

Agora: https://agorasocial.app

Source code: https://github.com/ghobs91/agora

[–] janonymous@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate how and what actions will affect my feed? I don't quite understand how this works without any login as I can't vote or write comments. Also how do my subscriptions affect it if I'm logged in to an instance?

I do like it and would wish something like that as an app.

[–] Aurelius@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hi, sorry for late follow up on this. I did a write up on the Quiblr "For You" feed here

[–] janonymous@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Better late then never, thanks!

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

🚩 Anti-libre software bans us from proving it’s claims. This is worse, service as a software substitute.