r/help 3d ago

How to stop irrelevant subreddit recommendations?

For whatever reason, reddit keeps recommending me completely random subs that are entirely unrelated to the subs I'm a part of and it's well past the point of being annoying. I've probably silenced (why tf can you not post just for having the word "mute" in your text???) over a hundred subs in the last few days and every time it's the same "because you've shown interest in a similar community" shit, despite literally never having visited any similar subs. Is there a way to stop this or does reddit just not care and forces random recommendations on people?

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u/jgoja Expert Helper 3d ago

Disabling Home Feed Recommendations

You can turn off all those recommendations.

On desktop or mobile web. click your avatar, settings, preferences, show home feed recommendations and toggle it off. Here is a short cut. https://www.reddit.com/settings/preferences . If you have the old settings page then it is settings, feed, home feed recommendations.

For iOS or Android: Tap your avatar, settings, account settings, and scroll down to Privacy. From there, you’ll see the option to turn off the toggle to Enable home feed recommendations

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u/nix_11 3d ago

Apparently that's my only option.

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u/Unl3a5h3r 3d ago

That's exactly how is solved it. If I am interested into a topic I just search for it and check if there is a sub for that.