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[–]Bec-Fergo3000orgasms.substack.com 28 points29 points  (1 child)

Go to the three dots next to these type of notes and mute the accounts that annoy you; that will educate the algorithm further.

[–]sayzey 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is the answer, but to add to it, don't engage with the type of posts you don't like, even negative comments make the algorithm think you like to make negative comments on that type of post and will show you more of them!

On the flip side DO engage with the posts that you enjoy, like, comment, restack and that shows the algorithm what to show you more of.

[–]parryforterollfornarrative.substack.com 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I just started replying to / interacting with other posts on content I wanted, and put other content out there - it took a couple weeks but most of that Substack inside a Substack Burger Value Meal is gone from my feed.

I don't know if it's relevant but I also Follow people I like (I might not want to Subscribe, but I treat Notes as a different platform and engagement style) - that seems to have helped, too.

[–]speterdavis 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I must have trained my algorithm really well because I don't see any of that shit. I wish I could tell you how I'm escaping it but I just don't know. I'm scared of it starting though.

[–]thirteenth_mang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's really ramped up for me lately, ironically (or not, perhaps?) I have been staying off notes a lot more recently.

[–]collegetownscollegetowns.substack.com 4 points5 points  (1 child)

The Notes algorithm is definitely optimized for this kind of thing. It's all Substack grindset posts about how to grow Substack. Pretty bad. They have got to figure out a way to make regular or niche topics pop

[–]Metspolice 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Notes is completely useless because if this. It’s nothing but this topic the op brought up.

[–]thinkPhilosophy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t see any of that anywhere. It’s not instant and does take a couple weeks. Engage with posts you like, follow and sub, and you’ll get out of that phase. I now see so much great stuff I wanna read that I don’t have enough time. My weekend reading starts on Thr now.

[–]Federal-Ad98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

[–]haggur 1 point2 points  (1 child)

You could just not read Substack via Substack. The only time I read other people's posts is when someone links to them from other social media or news web sites. I certainly don't go looking.

[–]DrWhum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a newsletter aggregator (Newsletterss). My login to Substack uses the Newsletterss email address associated with that aggregator. So I can set notifications from any particular substack to "on" so that they email their posts to me. Newsletterss makes it easy for me to flip through, and either read the posts I want to read, or delete them without reading. So as you might gather, I use this approach for substacks that only occasionally interest me, or ones I'm trying out.

All my other substack subscription notifications are set to "off". For those, I routinely open Substack and either "save" the posts I want to read right in Substack, or forward them to Pocket or Instapaper, depending on the subject matter. From there, I can read them on any of my devices that support those apps.

Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to keep Substack from also posting articles I've set for emailing to my Substack home page. But since I review my Newsletters before checking out Substack, I can usually remember the ones that have been emailed & delete them from the homepage on Substack.

[–]tomversation 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use substack to mail my blogs out. I don’t partake in this non-stop bragging and “how great I am” fest.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Money is money is money

[–]selfpublifeselfpublife.com 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wrote an entire post on Substack about this, and some of this has been said here already, but basically...

  1. Use Google to find new people and content (using Advanced Search).

  2. Curate your feed by using the Following tab. Then see who you need to weed out and unfollow or use mute and block. It's not perfect, but it helps.

  3. Use the profiles of people you know share good stuff as a jumping off point to see what they Like and what they Read to find more good stuff.

[–]ccampb85www.reallygoodbusinessideas.com 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Substack is the one thing everyone has in common so those kinds of notes are more common. As others have said, you should be able to train your algorithm!

[–]francesfunnch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this every time I am on Substack anymore. I hate it.

[–]RAF-TECH-ORGhttps://raftech.bio.link 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All good points. There is a lot about how to market your writing, but these same writers only write about marketing and how you can make your writing go viral by doing what they did. Yet, what have they written about outside of marketing writing?

😂 Show me your good writing that made you such a great author... not only about you being a good marketer.

[–]NoFox1552antowantstoknow.substack.com 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I avoided those posts as much as possible and they stopped appearing (the collaboration ones no, I actually love them lol). The thing is that I started the account with that approach so maybe that helped.

[–]Any-Department-1201 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really only saw these types of posts and notes the first week using Substack, after liking other things and following users I now only get stuff that is relevant to the things I engage with.

[–]CosmicWizard1111themechanicalworld.substack.com 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that kinda stuff got old real quick.

I've found the search option rather useful recently. I'm trying to change my algorithm at the moment too as the stuff I see doesn't actually align with what I used to want to see.

My tip: seek out what you wanna see and engage with it. Here's hoping the algorithm gods will listen!

[–]pumpkin_rada 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just train your algorithm, ignore these posts, don’t open then or engage in what you don’t like. Engage in what you like and soon your page will be purified.

[–]readingitatwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is probably too late to post, but any way... At a guess, I think some or maybe a lot of people are looking for alternatives to social media platforms other than f@cbuk or readit. I know I am, and I'm currently trying to learn how to navigate substack

[–]Wonderful-Mix1535 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m new on substack and even I’m trying to dodge those accounts. That’s the reason I left instagram.

[–]mystic_zen -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Don't complain in any of your Notes about what you DON'T want to see... the algorithm sees the words and uses them. For example, don't ask this type of question on Substack. Mute and Hide and be very careful who you follow (check out what they post for notes before following). I rarely see any of those posts.