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.

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[–] 83 points 1 year ago

Phoebe: "Enshittification has a specific meaning"

Joey: "Enshittification is when something happens that I don't like"

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Uh... that's literally the point of r/popular, it shows you popular stuff.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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).

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    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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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    A. No

    B. You used to, but now you just select see fewer and hope.

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  • [–] 92 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Oh yeah? Well if you don't love America, you can just leave!

    (Yeah, I know, but I just couldn't resist.)

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Fellas, is this thread racist?

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    It sure seems that way. Lotta up votes for a racist thread, which isn't great.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Chat, am I racist for disliking German subs and blocking on sight?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

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

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Internet in India is so cheap since Reliance Jio found they could offset internet customer discounts by selling every iota of customer data that you can get a month of 5G data, 2 gigs a day, for less than the price of a big Mac. This has had, is having, and will have consequences for global cyberspace.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    $1.85 USD per month for 2 GB/day of 5G data is pretty wild. It seems like Meta is the company that's running away with all the data. I'm all for broader accessibility, its just too bad it happened that way (though I dont blame consumers for taking it since it may just be the most affordable internet access in the world).

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  • [+] 44 points 1 year ago (10 children)
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    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.

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  • [+] -28 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year 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?"

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Why are you using popular?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I honestly can't watch most of that era of comedies. Even when they were first airing I didn't like Friends but there were others I liked.

    I tried watching Frasier again recently and the laugh track drove me nuts. I got to the point of looking for an ML tool to strip the sound out.

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    [–] 3 points 1 year 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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    theres has been so many indian subs and posts recently, just right after when musk and trump were railing on H1-B VISAS.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    looks like shit thanks for posting

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Stop making Lemmy worse. Don't post pictures of text.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    Lol you think this is bad, you should have seen when they still had r/Chodi

    Reddit had a massive a ganges cesspool long before it took a nosedive in practically every other type of content and feature.

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