How your feed works

Your home feed is ranked, not just the newest posts first. This page explains how.

What decides the order

Each candidate post gets a score from five things:

• Location — the place bubbles you share with the author. The more local the shared bubble (street, city, region, country, continent, world), the more it counts.
• Interests — posts from the interest bubbles you joined.
• People you follow — posts by accounts you follow.
• Popularity — posts other people are liking.
• Recency — newer posts score higher, and some fresh posts are mixed in so your feed does not settle into the same voices.

Your weights

You decide how much location, interests, people you follow and popularity count. Open your profile and its Preferences tab to change these weights. Recency is the same for everyone.

"Why this post"

Posts in your feed carry a ? button. It shows the reasons the feed picked that post — for example, that you follow the author, or that it was posted in your city bubble.

What we do not use

The feed uses only the signals above. It does not use anything you do outside Ovi.