How to block a subreddit (Reddit calls it muting)
Reddit doesn’t have a block button for subreddits; it has mute. Open the community, click the three dots and choose Mute, and its posts stop showing up in your Home and Popular feeds and your notifications. Here’s how on the web and in the app, and what muting doesn’t catch.
Updated November 2, 20261. Mute a community on reddit.com
- Go to the community you want gone.
- Click the three dots (the overflow menu).
- Click Mute r/… with the community’s name.
You can also mute from your settings: go to Preferences and scroll down to Muted communities, where you can add and remove them.
If a community only reaches you as a recommendation, open the three dots on that post and choose Show fewer posts like this. Reddit says you won’t get suggestions from that community again.
2. Mute a community in the Reddit app
- Go to the community.
- Tap the three dots at the top right. If you don’t see them, scroll down the page a little.
- Tap Mute r/… and confirm with Yes.
From the Popular feed, you can also tap the three dots on a post and choose Mute r/… for its community.
To see everything you’ve muted, open Settings, tap Account settings for your username, and scroll down to the safety section, then Manage muted communities.
You can mute up to 1,000 communities.
How to unmute
On reddit.com, go back to Preferences, then Muted communities, and remove it. In the app, use Manage muted communities. Turning notifications back on for a muted community also unmutes it, and it returns to your feeds and recommendations.
What muting doesn’t catch
- It covers three places. Reddit says muting removes a community from your Home feed (recommendations included), the Popular feed and notifications. It says other feeds and recommendations will come in “future launches”.
- You can still open it. Muting doesn’t stop you visiting the community or reaching its posts from a link.
- Crossposts get through. Muting works on the community, so the same post shared into a community you haven’t muted shows up as normal.
- A topic isn’t a subreddit. Mute the main politics or crypto subreddit and the same arguments turn up in news, meme and local subreddits, and in the comments of communities you joined on purpose.
- It isn’t a report. If a community breaks Reddit’s rules, Reddit asks you to report it as well.
To get rid of one post at a time, see how to hide Reddit posts. Reddit has no setting to hide posts by keyword; our guide to filtering keywords on Reddit covers what you can do instead.
Filter the topic, whichever subreddit it’s in
Remedy is a Chrome extension that filters Reddit as you browse. Tell it, in your own words, what you’re done with, like “no crypto hype”, “nothing about the election” or “no celebrity gossip”, and it removes matching posts and comments as they load, whichever subreddit they come from. It understands meaning, so it catches posts that never use the obvious words.
It works on a computer, in Chrome, not in the Reddit app. It filters X, YouTube, Instagram and other sites too.
Questions
Can you block a subreddit on Reddit?
Reddit’s version is muting. A muted community stops showing in your Home and Popular feeds and your notifications, though you can still visit it.
How many subreddits can I mute?
Up to 1,000. To mute more, you’d need to unmute some first.
Why do I still see posts from a subreddit I muted?
Muting covers your Home and Popular feeds and notifications. Crossposts into other communities still show, and Reddit says muting doesn’t reach its other feeds and recommendations yet.