22 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)
View submission: Making Redditing Simpler
Just kill the bullshit notifications (a new post in some sub, go see your comment, etc), and stop putting posts from unsubbed subs in my feed. That would go a long way toward decluttering Reddit. Until you fix those things, no other 'improvements' matter.
Comment by JabroniRevanchism at 08/03/2023 at 04:22 UTC
8 upvotes, 2 direct replies
You can disable these! It sounds like you’re talking about two different content curation features: some notification settings and “Home Feed Recommendations,” respectively.
You can edit your notification preferences in your notification settings[1]. It sounds like you’ll want to disable “trending posts” and “community recommendations,” and you can also edit any other settings there as you like.
1: https://www.reddit.com/settings/notifications
Once that’s done you can disable “Enable home feed recommendations” in your feed settings[2]; that’s the machine learning (ML) feature that recommends content similar to what you’re already browsing via your home feed.
2: https://new.reddit.com/settings/feed
Comment by Empole at 16/03/2023 at 17:35 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
That's was the entire reason I stopped using Facebook. One day I realized that the platform was inventing engagement for it to notify me about.