How to Improve Your Reddit Recommendations

If you use Reddit, chances are you’ve seen recommended posts in your feeds. While it can be okay to get a few referrals like this, dozens or hundreds can easily become a distraction.

Whether you want to reduce, increase, or diversify the types of recommendations you receive from Reddit, this article will help you learn how to improve your Reddit recommendations.

What are Reddit Recommendations?

When you log into Reddit, one of the first questions you’re asked is “Which of the following statements best describes you?”. You will then be presented with gender and pronoun options to answer or decline.

The question is repeated on Interests Side. However, this time you will be presented with options and categories related to popular topics. Again, you can either reply or decline.

According to the company, Reddit will never share this information and will only use it to improve what content you see. This forms the basis of Reddit’s recommendation system.

Types of recommendations on Reddit

There are two basic types of Reddit recommendations. The first is recommendation notifications, the second is homefeed recommendations.

Essentially, recommendation notifications are desktop or mobile notifications, while home feed recommendations are made by the Reddit algorithm. Learn more about Reddit recommendations and how to stop them in our guide to the topic.

Now let’s see how you can improve your Reddit recommendations.

Improving your Reddit recommendations

There are several ways to improve the quality of the recommendations you get from Reddit. Here’s how you can achieve that.

During signup or initial setup

The best time to start laying the groundwork for relevant Reddit recommendations is when you sign up and set up Reddit.

Make sure you answer those About you Setup questions as honestly as possible. This helps Reddit recommend more relevant content most of the time, especially as home feed recommendations.

For example, if you’re male, selecting female as your gender will only result in Reddit recommending more female-centric content and subreddits for you.

Also, be careful when choosing Interests and communities during initial setup. Only select the ones you are willing to receive recommendations for during your Reddit usage.

Change your interests on Reddit

What if you skipped the initial setup steps like people who never read the Terms of Service? Well it turns out there’s hope for you. Reddit allows you to change your account information. Here you can update yours About you info etc

In addition:

1. Open Reddit and go to your account.
2. Click your username in the top right.

3. From the menu options, click user settings.
4. Click on that Account Tab.

5. Here you can change your gender or display language to see more relevant recommendations.

If you haven’t set your interests, Reddit will occasionally prompt you to add them. If you don’t get this prompt, you can signal your interests to Reddit by searching for topics and following related subreddits.

Change your privacy settings

Changing your privacy settings is another effective way to improve your Reddit recommendations. Here’s how:

1. Go to your Reddit account.
2. Click on your username.

3. From the menu options, click user settings.
4. Click on that security and privacy Tab.
5. Toggle the personalization settings.

There are a variety of ways Reddit can personalize content for you. These include:

• Personalize Reddit based on the outbound links you click.
• Personalize ads based on information from our partners.
• Personalize ads based on your activity with our partners.
• Personalize recommendations based on your general location.
• Personalize recommendations based on your activity with our partners.

Change your notification settings

Changing your Reddit notification settings also goes a long way in improving your Reddit recommendations. Here’s how:

1. Launch Reddit and log into your account.
2. Click your username in the top right.

3. Click on user settings.
4. Click on that notifications tab.
5. Scroll down to recommendations section and toggle the settings you want to change.

You can toggle notifications for Trending posts, Broadcast Recommendations, Community Recommendationsand ReReddit.

Join relevant communities and post content

You can likewise refine your Reddit recommendations by finding and joining relevant subreddits and communities, and enabling recommendations and notifications for them.

Once you’ve joined, take action and post content and relevant comments on other people’s posts. That way, you’ll get more notifications and recommendations from Reddit showing you similar content.

You can join either by searching for specific subreddits or communities, or by clicking Connect Button.

Go ahead and improve your Reddit recommendations

Depending on your particular situation or needs, you can greatly improve the quality of Reddit recommendations you receive by implementing one or more of these tips. The best part is that they are all super easy to implement.

Ultimately, whether you do so during or after initial setup by changing your privacy and security settings, changing your notification preferences, or joining and being active on relevant subreddits and communities; Better recommendations are the bottom line.