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How do I disable recommended and recent subreddits in app?
I can't find a way to just get a clean feed of the subreddits I've joined. It seems to be one recommended sub, one ad, one "near you" sub, and then a post from a sub I care about, and continues in this pattern as I scroll. It's making checking the app tedious as I'm spending so much time marking everything as "show less of this".
I've only recently started using reddit again so maybe the answer is obvious but can't seem to find a solution. Thank you!
Reddit is full of cringe subredits with stupid posts. I don't want them. I just want my animal subs and some of my hobbies. This is such a dumb decision.
They removed the option? 😮💨 I was literally searching to see an answer because I thought i was going crazy having to get rid of all the "recommended" subreddits for me, like I'm incapable of finding and joining a sub on my own. Thanks reddit. Guess I won't be using reddit for a while.
There's another comment that says it, but I didn't see it. They now have tabs at the top of the feed. For you and following. Following is apparently what we're looking for.
Just figured this out, we’ll see how long this stays true:
If you have a curated feed, aka you have a LOT of favorites and jsut want to see stuff from those, switch ti the “latest” feed and it’ll stick to stuff you’re subbed to
Thank you so much, I was at risk of getting RSI from individually marking posts as "show fewer posts like this". I realised that it was like cleaning a beach, one grain of sand at a time.
I disabled recommended subs a couple of years ago, then in the last few hours I’m getting recommended subs in my feed and I don’t see the option in settings any more.
I don't know how pissy admins get about people going into details, so I'll just say that people with Android phones should look into ReVanced and DM you with a bit more specifics
Im late to the game here but I found that you can create a custom feed at the bottom of your joined communities list in the sidebar on mobile. This lets you make feeds for specific communities and not get recommended random stuff
I only started getting this a couple of weeks ago. Now over 90% of my feed is recommended subreddits, and I'm giving up on coming to the app altogether since it's only showing me garbage I don't have interest in.
idk if its the same update, but i see 2 tabs at the top now. one "for you" thats full of recommended subs, and "following" which just shows followed subs.
While the setting was removed, there is now a "For you" and a "Following" tab at the top of your home feed. "For you" is stuff you are following and posts/communities they think you will like while "Following" is only stuff you have followed (as it used to be)
That's the issue, it is not. I am not following any political stuff but it keeps showing me that and other unrelated topics.
I have marked so many posts as uninterested but still similar stuff keeps popping up. I want to discover new content but only related to things I am interested in
I wound up just disabling Reddit notifications on my phone it was so irritating. Yes they were delivered silently but I didn’t care for the majority of the recommendations.
3 months late, facing the same issue. I set the location thingy from approximate IP to nowhere, and for the past five minutes, have only seen subreddits I follow. So maybe I won?
Looks like they dropped this feature. Looks like im done with reddit, these recommendations are so bad for my mental health, I smell a class action lawsuit around addiction.
Just landed here looking into the same issue. I found that the account settings has a ton of toggles you can disable, plus there is a location based recommendation that you can change. Just did this, it seems better so far.
You can just see the subreddits you have joined in your home feed if you turn off the “recommended by Reddit” subs. Go to profile, then Settings, then Account Settings. Find “Show Recommendations in Home Feed” and turn that off (I’m on iOS app so your steps may vary).
They have removed that option in the latest version of the app, because I noticed I started getting stupid recommendations again. Ugh... I guess it's back to muting every community they throw at me by hand.
Edit to add: I’m on the latest update iOS and still have the option per my screenshot. Just wondering since I help in multiple new user subreddits and any info will help me keep up to date with the changes between Android, iOS, desktop and web browser.
Apparently they're testing out a new "feature" on some of us, which is new tabs on the home screen- "for you" and "my feed"; the "for you" being a list of recommended feeds that appear first when opening the app.
Here’s a recent discussion about some changes they made (I don’t have access to a desktop). Check your feed and see if it’s on the new “for you” tab: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddithelp/s/p6DXZU9xYv
On the desktop go to your settings > preferences and look for the content section, you’ll see a setting called “show recommendations in home feed” turn that off.
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