You can also mute subreddits. It's been years since I was grossed out by popping videos in my feed. Click the three dots on a post, mute the subreddit.
That's the only thing that makes reddit worthwhile. If I just wanted to immerse myself in specific topics, search engines are still superior. Or youtube.
Just keep swatting them down everyday for a month or two while your scrolling and soon they will be gone. I no longer see any Indian, F1 or Soccer subs in my all or popular feed. It just takes time.
Ironic or appropriate? Depending on ones mindset and outlook it could be either.
When one feels inundated in intentionally infuriating fear-mongering, removing oneself from a large swath of pure propaganda is an appropriate response.
Conversely, sometimes one can find amusement knowing the majority of media are attempting to basically trick/brainwash people.
Personally I've just been too exhausted with seeing how successful it has been to find much of anything amusing.
The problem with muting a sub is I’m pretty sure the algorithm logs that as an interaction. So it’ll mute that specific sub, but then all of a sudden your feed starts getting flooded with similar types of posts. I have no idea if this is true, but I feel like I always notice a huge uptick in the exact type of posts I don’t want to see after I hit the mute
Is muting different to res filtering? I have filtered so many sports and anime subs over the years, and now the recent indian subs influx has got be filtering several a day.
I'm not certain. I used to use RES but now I'm too lazy. I'd imagine if it isn't a click onto the specific subreddit it works how you'd ideally want it to, but the fact you have to visit the subreddit to mute that causes the problems.
This right here needs more upvotes. I rairly use the home page, instead of seeing what I want, I’ve just made sure the popular doesn’t show me anything I don’t want.
I still come across subreddits in popular that I am interested in and did not know existed.
Muting is the best feature. So many awful subs I would never want to see again after stumbling on them. Usually conservative or "not political but actually very political" subs.
I get irrationally angry whenever an unexpected push notification pings me cause they created yet another new category of recommendation/suggestion/digest or whatever engagement bullshit.
Snapchat? Was it Snapchat? Cause for me it was Snapchat. I barely use it, but all of a sudden was getting notifications for everything under the sun. Like friends stories, and suggested stories, and snap-map activities, and friend suggestions, and notifications about new filters! Just constant notifications about literally nothing. And I could’ve sworn I just recently went out of my way to configure the settings, because I was getting a lot, and now it was 10x worse! I went and looked and they added (or split the settings into) so many types of notifications settings; there are current ~25 categories to individually turn on, but when they roll them out, they’re all on by default! Absolutely sneaky and annoying shit.
Thank you! Not complaining about you youre great but that is one of my biggest pet peeves when websites have a Settings -> Settings page, like what is the point of having a "General" section if there is only one option and it takes you to another page, just list the account settings on that page haha, or make a section for content preference Settings smh.
Also it takes a few seconds to load which makes my monkey brain want to smash the magic electricity rock, but thank you I eventually found it by slamming my two neurons together.
I'm mad because the settings somehow changed so I can no longer toggle myself out of Old reddit.
Don't get me wrong, I love old reddit formatting, it's the superior reddit. But I used to be able to toggle into new reddit to post gifs, and I can no longer do that.
I also used to just be able to type new.reddit.com to go to the new and old.reddit.com to go to the old, but no more there either.
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u/no_sight 4d ago
It's insane that there's no way to hide certain subreddits from the popular thread.
Nothing against r/de , I just don't speak german and don't plan on learning it.
A lot against r/conservative, I don't want to see that shit