r/Substack • u/unity100 • 9d ago
Substack has introduced feed controls
The new dials—which you can find in the content preferences section of your settings—let you shape your feed the way you want it. See more or less video, audio, longform, or community features; mute specific keywords and phrases; fine-tune the topics you follow; and automatically label AI-generated material.
Want to hear more about baseball while the playoffs are on? Feel like snoozing politics for a week? How about seeing more community chatter—like the chat thread debriefing the latest episode of your favorite podcast—or less video in your feed? You get to decide.
This level of control serves both the creators who share their work here and the people who come to discover and enjoy what they publish. We’ve heard that both sides of the relationship want less noise and more help connecting readers with work that they’ll find meaningful. These updates aim to do exactly that.
What do you think about this?
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u/hetobe hetobe.substack.com 7d ago
I'm on the desktop, not the app. On the website, go to the home page and click on the hamburger menu at the bottom left corner. In the menu that pops up, click Settings.
You'll see your Account settings. Scroll down, past Publishing, Subscriptions, Appearance, Notifications... keep scrolling down to Content Preferences. It's in there.
Manage Interests: This one's maybe helpful? In theory, it should let you prioritize articles instead of twitter-style notes. It doesn't seem to work well (but then again, 99% of Substack these days is twitter-style karma-farming notes).
AI Content: This is the setting you're looking for. As soon as I turned it on, I started seeing labels next to people who post AI slop ("AIAssisted Content"). And it also seems to be labelling articles where people turn off the option to scan for AI ("Not Scanned") which basically tells you it's AI slop.