Ability to disable the "Suggested for you" box on profile pages

[RetroSunstar]

While scrolling through any profile, users will be greeted once by a "Suggested for you" box. This box contains 4 accounts suggested to the user to follow, which are the top 4 found on the Search Tab

Describe the solution you'd like

I believe this feature should have an option to disable it from appearing on profiles at all, especially on the user's own profile.

The option would be extremely nice to have for those who might not want to see it every time or at all! 🩵🩷🩵🩷

I personally would like to keep the accounts I'm suggested to follow to the Search tab, the place I'm most likely looking for accounts. Being contantly feed a list of suggestions that might be wrong and in a place I'm not expecting or wanting to see it can be a fairly negative experience

[gaearon]

This box contains 4 accounts suggested to the user to follow, which are the top 4 found on the Search Tab

This is not how it's supposed to work and in this case is more of a bug — it's supposed to show accounts related to the account you're viewing. There is a fallback (if it doesn't know any related accounts to the viewed account, it shows generic suggestions) but we should probably remove this fallback for this reason.

[gaearon]

We should probably also add a dismiss button so you can hide it. And maybe it doesn't make sense on own profile since the purpose is more about account discovery.

[mschwendener]

I would hide the suggestions in settings at the moment if that was an option.

But: I don't mind that they exist, I just don't like how "in my face" they are.

• show them later, maybe after 15 posts of the account I'm looking at
• don't call them "suggested for you" if they are triggered by the profile I'm looking at
• make them a lot smaller; for example show me 3 per row, but only one row

[gaearon]

Thanks everyone for feedback, we're going to take a pass:

• We'll tweak the header to make it clear these are related accounts
• We'll make it dismissible so that you don't see it again if you don't want to
• We'll make the block slightly more compact on web where it's currently a bit overblown
• We won't show "generic" fallback suggestions on profiles — if there's no related profiles, we'll just omit it

This might take ~ a week so pls bear with us for a bit.

[mschwendener]

We'll make it dismissible so that you don't see it again if you don't want to

Thank you

I'm very seldom looking at twitter, but this is less intrusive to me, because it fits in the flow of my scrolling.

[RossBrunton]

Could you add a setting to disable these "adverts" entirely? There's already a way to discover new accounts at the top of the "Search" page, and I really don't like having algorithmically generated content in my feed.

Edit: Sorry, may have worded that a bit hotheaded there. Assuming this isn't a bug, I'd like it to be removed - I'm not interested in algorithmic content in my feed at all.

For anyone browsing this thread looking for a solution, here is a ublock origin filter to remove them:

bsky.app#?#div:-abp-has(> div > div > a[aria-label="Browse more suggestions"])

[Kuroo2021]

I would have to agree allowing the user to disable this feature would be helpfully as I hate it when pop up in my feed of any type. This feature was more ported over from Twitter why not do more away from Twitter and start to expand on more things? But this disable feature on this would be greatly helpfully @gaearon From what you said above it been more then a week and still shows up but no means to dismiss it from the prompt I had.

As you can see in the image no type of disable item allowed.