r/Mindfulness is losing the Advertising battle, so we're trying something NEW.
Hi everyone, u/Alan-Foster here with an update to r/Mindfulness.
I believe everyone can agree that the tools we have to filter out AI / Advertising spam just really aren't working. We still get 5-10 advertising posts per day which accounts for about 20% of the content in the subreddit. It's pretty bad.
Starting Sunday, April 5 2026 (Easter Sunday) we'll be testing out a new App called Hestia that I've been working on for nearly a year. It was designed to support mental health subreddits with seeding conversations, but this week I taught it to detect advertising and spam posts.
I've tested it on nearly 500 posts already, so it should work *reasonably* well. Probably. Maybe. I hope you will all be patient as we work out any problems it may have during launch. If it goes well, you can expect to hopefully see it used by other mental health subreddits across Reddit.
We'll see if it makes a difference. Thank you!
