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.

  • etherphon@midwest.socialEnglish
    1·
    11 minutes ago

    With the recent announcement of openAI giving Indians free access for a year, just you wait, the AI slop is going to be taking over everything.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    41·
    2 hours ago

    Friends has to be the most overrated TV show of all time. It’s so painfully unfunny, and I can’t help but judge a person when they tell me they’re a fan.

    • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      1 hour ago

      I have a general feeling about that for most sitcoms. I won’t search for it on streaming, I won’t time my life to watch em, and I won’t even switch to em if I see them in a channel list… but if it’s already on TV because someone else is watching…I guess I’ll watch? Seinfeld, Fraiser, etc

      I think I did like B99 much more, but still mostly saw it when my roommate at the time was watching. Not like I have any sophisticated level of humor; my favorite comedy shows that I actually rewatch would be Futurama, then maybe other less adult oriented cartoons like Phineas and Ferb or Gumball. I’m excluding things that are comedies but also are action/storyline driven, and keeping it mostly to “episode of the week” stuff.

  • HeyMrDeadMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 hour ago

    Funny because this is me, and German subs on Lemmy. And it’s hilarious because literally every time it happens, I re-read the headline at least two or three times thinking to myself “why can’t I understand this? Am I drunk?”

  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
    5·
    16 hours ago

    I don’t think I could bear for one second browsing Reddit without having the subs carefully curated to my preferences.

  • shawn1122@sh.itjust.works
    142·
    20 hours ago

    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.

    • discount_door_garlic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      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)

      • shawn1122@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 hours ago

        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.

      • Redex@lemmy.world
        223·
        1 day ago

        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.

        • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca
          6·
          1 day ago

          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.

          • Lemminary@lemmy.world
            7·
            1 day ago

            If the title’s in English and so is the thumbnail, why the fuck is the content in another language??

            • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca
              5·
              1 day ago

              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.

        • Ademir@lemmy.eco.br
          41·
          1 day ago

          At least here you can just filter the languages you understand, in case you are american that would be only one.

  • pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.de
    81·
    2 days ago

    Phoebe: “Enshittification has a specific meaning”

    Joey: “Enshittification is when something happens that I don’t like”

  • Changer098@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    40·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca
      5·
      1 day ago

      I think it’s hillarious that as I’m scrolling through Penney it’s suddenly like: GERFRETSWHEILEZAUHAUERFLURGEN WÜT MAUKERWARPSLPOT

      Then back to english

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 day ago

      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

      • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 hours ago

        So you didn’t see any of the political or regional ones? They have as many diverse topics as other languages.

  • tfi@lemmy.world
    10014·
    2 days ago

    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!

    • turdcollector69@lemmy.world
      1·
      36 minutes ago

      If I don’t agree with it then it’s not actually popular. I wish the admins would consult me before choosing the r/all posts

    • Sprawl@lemmy.world
      14·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
        112·
        1 day ago

        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).

        • edible_funk@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 hours ago

          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.

        • Oppopity@lemmy.ml
          41·
          1 day ago

          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.

  • ruuster13@lemmy.zip
    19·
    2 days ago

    Do you ever wander into a Filipino sub and tfoggalo mpaktak angdoo wopadidamo ardvarawak?

  • stabby_cicada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    5617·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz
    4·
    1 day ago

    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

  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
    16·
    1 day ago

    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.