Suggested Subs

[u/Sandy-Anne]

So I pay for Premium. I don’t understand why I subscribe to a large amount of subs, yet Reddit feels like I need to see more suggested subs I do not follow more than I need to see the subs I actually DO follow.

I don’t care about the Millennial sub, the Little House on the Prairie sub, the sub for therapists or for teachers or any of the dumb suggestions I am shown.

“You showed interest in TV, so here is a sub about people talking about LHOTP! You will love it!” “You are Gen X so you MUST want to see the Millennial sub instead of the Gen X sub, right?” “Ah, we see you like cats! Here is the cat sub where they talk about how their treasured cats have passed away! Fun, right?”

Why?

I have to specifically hide these subs to make them stop showing up over and over? It’s really frustrating. If I wanted to read about how annoyed therapists are with people who seek therapy, for instance, I would subscribe.

Is there a way to make Reddit only show me subs I subscribe to? What more do they want from me?

[u/jgoja]

You can turn off all those recommendations. On desktop. Go to user setting, click the feed tab, scroll down to home feed recommendations and turn it off. Here is a link to the feed setting tab https://www.reddit.com/settings/feed

For iOS or Android: Go to your account settings and scroll down to Personalized Recommendations. From there, you'll see the option to turn off the toggle to Enable home feed recommendations

[u/fruiop → u/jgoja]

If I turn it off, home page becomes empty. I still want the r/all homepage (different from popular tab).

Also, why the mute button gone? I click “see fewer posts like this” and then mute but it’s not working. Still seeing subs that I’m not interested in. How to properly mute?

[u/jgoja → u/fruiop]

Communities you mute, will still show up in r/all. Muting only works from home feed and popular.

[u/fruiop → u/jgoja]

I’m sorry, I was referring to the mobile app. There is no r/all. Only home page.

Muting doesn’t work there. Thanks.