Itās not about muting categories I donāt care about. Itās about muting categories that are intended for subsets of the community by design, and encouraging users to then un-mute the ones they are interested in. If there are 100 national community categories, each new user is probably only going to be interested in a few of them.
Of course this is impossible, and itās not what Iām suggesting. Iām suggesting that for a new user, the main top level categories like General talk and Help and support are set as Normal and all the subcatories under Communities are set as Muted. New users are then encouraged to set any Communities subcategories they are interested in to Normal. This way they donāt get overwhelmed right away with a huge number of posts in the Latest section that are irrelevant to them.