Muted Reddit’s auto-subscription after it became intolerable

Reddit somehow detected that I’m interested in AI and Data and auto-subscribed me to several hundred AI and Data subreddits. This turned their feed to an endless slop machine. Every single pre-IPO hype post or or doom prophecy would pop on my feed multiple times per subreddit, 5 if it was Sam Altman’s. Multiply that by at least 100 AI subreddits and you get the idea. You are scrolling and scrolling without seeing a single cat. Claude this, Sam Altman that, Anthropic this, I vibe coded this genius thing, and then Sam Altman again.

Rather than adding Reddit to the list of sites I ignore, I followed the subreddits where I’ve recently posted comments, and then disabled the following setting:

I greatly recommend this approach. Cats, rockets, and cars showed up again. The apocalypse is muted.