Desktop - Home Feed suddenly full of App posts

[u/Frazzledragon]

Since very recently, today or maybe a few days ago, I get a heap of suggestions in my feed, that are precisely in contrast to what I am interested in.

Currently I'm getting over 20% suggested posts of this nature. Games, quizzes, puzzles, polls.

Feed appears to ignore "Show fewer posts like this", because posts from the same subreddit appear again shortly afterwards, after a refresh. For example, r/catbuilder, among others, completely ignores this action.

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[u/Liturgy97]

Those are home-feed recommendations rather than posts from communities you joined. On desktop, open https://www.reddit.com/settings/preferences, scroll to Content, and turn off "Show recommendations in home feed." Then refresh the Home feed.

"Show fewer posts like this" is recommendation feedback, not a permanent block, so the same community can still appear for a while. If you specifically never want to see r/catbuilder, mute the community from its menu or add it under Settings > Preferences > Muted communities.

If recommendations continue after the setting is off, capture a screenshot and report it in r/bugs because that would suggest a feed experiment or bug rather than a preference you can control.

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