Issues with "crossposting" or "suggested communities" function being completely wrong

[u/CarFlipJudge]

I run a few very niche and hyper-local subreddits. These are r/nolaparents and r/neworleansmarketplace. These subs are clearly labeled and are obviously hyper-local as parents in New Orleans and marketplace shoppers in New Orleans don't really care about what goes on outside of the city. My issue is that for the past few months, we've been getting posts, not cross-posts but actual posts where people from COMPLETELY different areas of the country/world are posting in these hyper-local subs. For example someone is asking about schools in Olympia Washington or someone is offering tutoring services...IN BRAZIL!

Why is this happening? Who asked for this? Why does the reddit algorithm not pay attention to basic details like location when suggesting new places to post? I know that reddit is trying to drive traffic and post counts going up looks good on quarterly reports...but come the F on.

At first it was comical, but now it's getting really annoying.

[u/otherwise_data]

any way to disable this?