[chaosphere2112]

I just killed Reddit off my home screen after a decade of usage because of a totally different bullshit growth hacking thing - they have started injecting their “recommended” subreddits into my swipe stream.

I have thumbs downed every single recommendation they’ve ever put in my scrolling feed, and now am being forced to consume absolutely random subreddits that their models have decided I’m super interested in because at some point in the last ten years I clicked through an r/bestof link.

Sigh. Now I need to actually figure out Mastodon.

[spiantino]

If you click the three dots on a recommendation you can select "show less like this" and you won't see recommendations from that subreddit. Also, there is a setting in user settings to prevent recommendations from subs you don't subscribe to from appearing at all, but I would give the algorithm a chance since there are interesting subs you probably aren't aware of.

Also, I wouldn't call making recommendations in home feed a growth hack, fwiw.

[timbit42]

Start here: https://mastodon.help/

The key to Mastodon isn't to follow other people but to follow hashtags so they are in your news feed, and to use hashtags everywhere in your posts and comments so other people can find them.