Customize how the Near You feeds work for you. These settings apply to both the chronological and For You feeds unless marked otherwise.
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Global settings apply to all feeds. Switch to a specific feed to override individual settings for that feed only.
Location
All settings on this page take effect instantly. Your primary city is managed on your ATlas profile and may take up to 5 minutes to update in the feed due to caching.
Which Cities All feeds
Choose which of your tagged cities to include in the feed. "Primary city" uses only your main city. "All my cities" includes every city you've tagged in ATlas (up to 3).
When enabled, the feed also includes posts from cities near your tagged cities (within the system radius, currently ~250km). When disabled, you only see posts from your exact tagged cities.
Override the maximum distance for nearby city posts. Posts from cities beyond this radius will be excluded (scored feeds) or not included in the candidate set (chronological). Leave blank to use the system default. Your tagged cities are always included regardless of radius.
Control which types of posts appear in your feed. Each source represents a different way posts are matched to your area.
ATlas Users
Posts from people who tagged their city in ATlas.
Hashtag Authors
Accounts that consistently use city hashtags. City placement earned via rolling 30-day hashtag count.
Follow Graph
Accounts placed in a city based on follower network concentration among ATlas users.
Hashtag Posts
Individual posts matching a city hashtag. One-off matches from anyone — may be less accurate.
Community Surfaced
Posts pulled in because many local ATlas users engaged with them (liked, reposted, replied).
Max Hashtag Count ChronologicalAdvanced
Filters out hashtag-matched posts that use too many hashtags. Posts from ATlas users are not affected. City hashtags mapped to the same city are grouped and counted as 1 (up to the group limit).
When counting hashtags, multiple hashtags mapped to the same city (e.g. #nyc #manhattan #bigapple all map to New York) are grouped and count as 1. This setting controls how many city hashtags get grouped before additional ones start adding to the count. Set to 0 to disable grouping entirely.
Whether your own posts appear when you browse the feed. Hiding them can make the feed feel more like a discovery tool since you already know what you posted.
Sets a minimum like count for posts to appear in your feed. Higher values filter out posts with less engagement, which can reduce noise but may hide new posts that haven't had time to get likes yet.
Controls how much image posts without alt text are demoted in the For You feed. Your setting overrides the system default. Setting this to "Hide completely" will remove all image posts that lack alt text descriptions from your For You feed.
Hide posts related to specific topics. This filters out posts from accounts categorized under these topics and posts whose content matches topic keywords. Changes take effect on your next feed refresh.
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Personalization
Interest Learning Scored feeds
When enabled, the feed learns your interests from your likes over time. Posts matching topics you frequently like get a small boost, and topics you consistently skip get slightly deprioritized. This never overrides your explicit topic settings above.
How much replies contribute to a post's score. By default replies are ignored (0x). Enable this if you want posts with lots of discussion to rank higher.
Controls how quickly posts lose ranking power as they age in the For You feed. "Recent" heavily favors posts from the last few hours. "Balanced" is the default middle ground. "Relaxed" gives older posts more staying power, useful if you check the feed less frequently. This does not affect the chronological feed which always sorts by time.
Direct control over the freshness half-life in hours. This overrides the preset above. The half-life is the number of hours until a post's freshness score drops to roughly 50%.
Controls the shape of the decay curve. Lower values = gradual steady decay. Higher values = posts hold value longer when young, then drop sharply around the half-life.
Controls how much posts from people you mutually follow are boosted in the For You feed. Mutuals are people you follow who also follow you back. A higher value means their posts rank higher relative to posts from people you don't follow. Set to "Off" to disable the boost entirely. If your following boost is set higher than this, the higher value is used (no double dipping).
Controls how much posts from people you follow (one-way, not mutual) are boosted in the For You feed. This is separate from the mutual boost above. Set to "Off" to disable the boost for non-mutual follows. Note: if you set this higher than the mutual boost, mutuals will use whichever value is higher (they won't get a worse boost just because someone followed you back).
Boosts posts from authors who share interests with you. Interests are based on your ATlas profile tags. When you and a post author have overlapping interests, their posts get a score boost. Set to "Off" if you prefer not to factor interests into ranking.
Boosts posts from authors whose content you have previously liked or reposted. The more you interact with someone, the stronger the boost (up to the max). Uses a logarithmic curve so a few interactions give a noticeable effect but it plateaus quickly to prevent filter bubbles. Set to "Off" to disable.
Add a Bluesky list to include those users' posts in your feed. Posts from list members will appear as if they are in the city you assign. Your primary city is used by default.
Members
You can only have 1 list. Remove your current list to add a different one, or upgrade to tier 3 for multiple lists.