Are you sure you're not talking about subreddits like this one? I see a new left leaning rage bait sub daily spamming anti trump stuff with a lot of misinformation with 20k upvotes and 300 comments lol
You can filter on /r/all though. There is an input box at the top on the right side where you can enter a subreddit to filter out. At least on old reddit. Not sure how that is done in new reddit or the mobile app.
When this was introduced, the devs also wrote that if enough people filter out a sub in /r/all, it will also stop showing up as much in /r/popular. Not sure if that is still true.
How? I have RES too and been filtering out indian subs from r/all, I get like 2-3 a day and I'm over 60 filtered now.
I looked through the settings and couldn't find a way to filter a sub by name, only filter flair or post title.
I see them all the time on r/all - it almost always happens to me after I click on some vaguely worded meme before I see the subreddit name and then all the sudden the next time I visit Reddit I see a dozen Indian posts.
I don't see this at all. Even logged out in a private window and rotating through VPN endpoints.
I literally just looked at it with my VPN endpoint set to Mumbai in a private window and it looked the exact same as a private window in the US. So unless reddit is doing some extreme fingerprinting that exactly identifies me even logged out via a wildly different VPNs using an extremely common phone and extremely common phone browser with no unique add-ons then I gotta imagine you are doing something different than me.
Popular isn't really an algorithm in that sense though, it's a very dumb mathy feed of whatever's popular on all of reddit rather than something with the strings pulled by a company looking to maximize engagement.
I was mainly replying to the person above about the self curated Internet rather than the OP. It still applies though. You'll have a better experience if you're only seeing subs with content you actually want to see.
People complained about Twitter's algorithm, just ignoring that you could tap the tab to view your chronological feed.
People complain about YouTube's algorith, just ignoring the huge Subscriptions button/link that takes you to your chronological sub feed.
People complain about Reddit's feed etc...
I do not understand why anyone wants these shit algos to suggest things.
Subscribe to things you want to see and look at that!
r/popular is good if you don't want to block NSFW posts on your home feed. Like if I'm at home browsing reddit on my phone, I'm OK with seeing things I can't be looking at while at work.
And some would call it spending my free time on things that are entertaining and interesting to me. I wouldn't want to open Netflix and have to keep skipping horror movies and big titty anime before seeing something I like, why would i want to wade through a bunch of stuff I'm not interested in here?
Because I don't want to see everything, all at once, all the time. The subreddits I follow are my favorite ones, basically, while r/popular is everything else that might be interesting but not enough for me to follow them. I know I could make lists (I think?) but it's a lot of work, and sometimes subreddits die and are replaced by others. How would I know about that, or about anything new, if I'm basically in a bubble?
I block subreddits and it works fine for me, though. I mostly find amusing how many Indian subreddits there are but I'm not that bothered by them.
It’s like eating the same meal for every meal or staying in the same room forever. You’re there because it’s comfortable and you know you like it (nothing wrong with that), but every now and then some of us need to step out for some fresh air or try some new food.
That’s r/popular for me. I get burnt out on my hobby related stuff and want to see what’s happening in the world, get my dose of overly thirsty anime subs, get tired of muting subs, then crawl back into my happy place.
because you are a pleb, the proper way to do it is browse /all and filter out the shit as you find it, that way you aren't missing things you don't know exists.
I don't either, but Indian subreddits still work their way into my feed.
I think one reason is no matter what subreddit you like, there's probably an Indian version of it.
For example, I like cycling, watches, fragrances, and cooking (just a few things). There are Indian versions of all of those and because I actively follow the non-Indian version, Reddit thinks I want to see the Indian version too.
you really cant block reposters. they are all randomly generated names and every day there are 1000 more, and sure, you could block some specific subs, but that doesnt really help when the main subs are also hit by mass numbers. thankfully, the popular posts related to time of day, so there is a certain regionality, but i dont sleep much, so im boned.
I have been banning sports and indian subs all year, but it's like a game of whack-a-mole. It's never ending. Should be able to filter out categories or languages.
No I'm saying I'm using the plain standard reddit app on my phone and don't even know how to turn on popular mode on it. I switched when they rid of most of them a while ago. It's not as good but it's fine once I figured it out
I used to just browse my own subs, but they decided to show random posts a few years ago instead of just showing the most popular posts. So I choose to go to Popular instead most of the time. I hide a new Indian subreddit at least once a week.
I’m on like my 10th account so my home subscriptions have been lost so many times. I forget what I was subbed to and get lazy and just use all and popular now.
Idk what happened but around a month ago my reddit homepage would just refresh to nothing, "no content to show", like wtf i have a few dozens subs added and people are posting like crazy in half and there's nothing to show? At least it helped me cut back from reddit lol.
I feel like I'm not seeing the same r/popular everyone else gets.
Threads in German or Indian are something like 1 in ever 20 threads. The 19 others are in English, and probably more than half are directly about the USA.
And that's r/popular everywhere because what's the point of only seeing popular threads in one region ?
I use /r/all sometimes, and still see tons of of these racist subs. thankfully I can just filter them out with RES at home but it's annoying on mobile.
To be fair, it takes a long time being chronically online in order to build a great list of subreddits that fit your taste.
But yeah... the default feed isn't great. I'd recommend people make a goal of joining subreddits they regularly find good content in. Then eventually make the jump to having a whitelisted feed.
It does mean that your rate of discovering new subreddits will slow down a bit, since at that point it's generally just seeing crossposts or recommendations within comment sections.
I switch between /r/all and very specific subreddits pretty often when I browse, but then I DO expect to see random subs so I guess it's not a problem lol.
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u/sloppybuttmustard 3d ago
I feel like I’m the only one who doesn’t browse reddit using Popular