I don’t have a Reddit account but every day, Popular has a bunch of subreddits in a different language, Indian subreddits, or weird smut.
Thought it was just me since I’m not logged in.
I keep getting recommend weird anti-muslim British subreddits.
Im not even British.
I don’t think I could bear for one second browsing Reddit without having the subs carefully curated to my preferences.
India has nearly a billion internet users. Some content will be popular on a global level because of that. Filter by whatever little corner of the world you’re in if that’s a problem for you. There’s enough space here for everyone.
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true, but it’s not like there are proportionate amounts of conspicuous traffic from Brazil or Korea which are almost overtaking many western user’s algorithms (China is kind of exempt obviously)
Brazil and Korea have less than a fraction of the number of Internet users so they likely don’t meet the threshold to penetrate an algorithm that will generally show Anglosphere users content in English.
Fellas, is this thread racist?
It sure seems that way. Lotta up votes for a racist thread, which isn’t great.
Chat, am I racist for disliking German subs and blocking on sight?
Nein, das ist okay.
How is it racist if you don’t want your feed to be filled with posts from random languages you don’t understand? To most users these posts add literally nothing.
The worst is when you’re looking for some kind of knowledge and the only thing you can find about it, because google is a rotting useless fucking turd, is some YouTube video with an English title, then some Indian guy is like" hello we’re going to talk about ____" and then the rest of the video is in Hindi or Punjabi or whatever.
If the title’s in English and so is the thumbnail, why the fuck is the content in another language??
I e asked myself that in frustration so many times as I fruitlessly trawl the web searching for useful information again.
I fucking hate google so much.
At least here you can just filter the languages you understand, in case you are american that would be only one.
Phoebe: “Enshittification has a specific meaning”
Joey: “Enshittification is when something happens that I don’t like”
I know! I feel the same way about American subs and American comments! No matter what the subject matter, no matter how interesting or even not interesting it is, most of the comments will be related to America! I wish there was some button to press that could purge all mentions of any said country, especially America. Yeah, we know you’re a racist fascist shithole, you always were, so well done for catching up with everyone else in realizing this, but I’m sick to death of reading about it. Give me some non-Yankee Doodle cats to watch!
Oh yeah? Well if you don’t love America, you can just leave!
(Yeah, I know, but I just couldn’t resist.)
So where are we supposed to go?
“We invented the internet after all. And that includes the fediverse.”
Tim Berners-Lee invented HTTP, web servers and browsers, and is English.
Didn’t he do it in CERN, an institution in switzerland?
Although ARPANET was started by the US?
Yeah. The CIXP building in CERN has his original paper printed as a poster hanging in the doorway :-)
Didn’t he do it in CERN, an institution in switzerland?
Why yes! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee#Career_and_research
I guess it bears pointing out, but still: whoosh! on you
Dude has the most English sounding name ever.
On Voyager you can block instances, communities, users, posts and keywords from appearing. I recommend adding to the list every time a new intolerant prick starts stirring shit up.
And Reddit is a sinking, stinking corporate ship. Art is destroyed. Adults are alienated. Innocent folk are stripped of their rights to speak. There’s nothing left for the community but fascists, conservatives and bot scripts.
This comment reminds me of that time my american ass and all my american family were in america and americad all over the place with how america we were.
Use filter words. Works well in the Boost app for Android. The more Ameeican specific words you add, the more American stuff you can get rid off (congress, MAGA, Elon, Trump, republicans, etc etc). Doesnt catch nearly all American stuff, but reduces it significantly.
Irish Republican Army
I typically lurk on All and see posts from the German language communities all the time. I don’t have a clue what any of the posts mean but they seem fun. I hope the Indian subreddits are the same way.
I think it’s hillarious that as I’m scrolling through Penney it’s suddenly like: GERFRETSWHEILEZAUHAUERFLURGEN WÜT MAUKERWARPSLPOT
Then back to english
From my previous experience browsing Reddit, the Indian subs were obvious low effort, absurd memes or shitposts. I think the only serious one I saw was religious. 🤷♂️
E: a word
ALOT OF car relate discussion from what ive glimpsed.
Uh… that’s literally the point of r/popular, it shows you popular stuff.
While true, you’d think with all the fancy algorithms social media tries to implement these days that it would use the general country and the default language as indicators. I guess that stuff only matters to them when they are feeding us ads.
I mean, sure but then it’s not r/popular anymore. Any kind of personalization would defeat the point of the category. I’m sure you’re not getting Indian posts in your own feed (not sure about the state of personalization on r/all).
No, Indian subs appear all over r/all either logged in or logged out and on various devices and IPb addresses. There should be a language filter, easy fix.
People don’t go to popular to find out what’s literally popular on the site overall, they want to find new subreddits or see popular stuff they would like.
Sounds to drag like people are using r/popular wrong
If they can’t read it, it doesn’t matter to them. That should be obvious to anyone designing a website
Do you ever wander into a Filipino sub and tfoggalo mpaktak angdoo wopadidamo ardvarawak?
No jajajaja
The mixing of English and Filipino or Indian is the worst. I start reading a comment and always think I’m having a stroke halfway through.
salamat poooo
Niet vaak, nee.
Oh no, the country with three times more people than the entire Anglosphere is starting to have a presence on Reddit proportionate to its numbers. How horrible.
What a shame India doesn’t have a government like China’s to quarantine its people behind a firewall so you can keep pretending Americans run the Internet.
While there’s undoubtedly plenty of racist pricks, the ability to filter out subs based on predominant language seems like a feature that already should have been available. I don’t care they’re there, I just don’t want my pages cluttered with posts I can’t read.
I think the current Indian government might actually go for that lol
I was going to make a counterargument, but you’re right, this is literally the point of r/popular.
What a shame India doesn’t have a government like China’s to quarantine its people behind a firewall
Ohh man Indian government is way worse than Chinese government. At least in China the government doesn’t commit crime against their own minority people
Wait you actually aren’t joking lmao
hoping this is sarcastic
Uyghurs say what?
Would you like to give that statement another go?
Stay off of those .ml instances
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China
Hahahaha that’s a good joke.
I do find it funny how Reddit and especially IMDb is just filled to them brim with Indian content they apparently think I want to see
And god, so many of them are just absolutely cram-packed with the most obnoxiously incel behavior. The actual hindi posts are not great about sexism, but they’re so much better than the creepy “All women are bitches” redpillers larping in racist broken english accents that are most of what you see on the “indian” subreddits.
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Yeah, I agree. I just check in on it to see how bad it’s gotten, really.
looks like shit thanks for posting
Designated shitting subs
Can’t users
a. filter by Hot in a given country
b. block subreddits from their Hot feed
?
I don’t remember there being any sort of customizable language filter for one’s feed
A. No
B. You used to, but now you just select see fewer and hope.
A. No
This is what I mean
…stay for the empathy?? Lmao
I dont want solutions, I want to be mad!
Why are you using popular?
