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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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.
Oh yeah? Well if you don't love America, you can just leave!
(Yeah, I know, but I just couldn't resist.)
"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?
Didn’t he do it in CERN, an institution in switzerland?
Why yes! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee#Career_and_research
Yeah the CIXP building in CERN has his original paper printed as a poster hanging in the doorway :-)
Dude has the most English sounding name ever.
I guess it bears pointing out, but still: whoosh! on you
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.
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Phoebe: "Enshittification has a specific meaning"
Joey: "Enshittification is when something happens that I don't like"
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).
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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 lemmy 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
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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.
I was going to make a counterargument, but you're right, this is literally the point of r/popular.
I think the current Indian government might actually go for that lol
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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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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Do you ever wander into a Filipino sub and tfoggalo mpaktak angdoo wopadidamo ardvarawak?
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.
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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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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.
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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Why are you using popular?
I don't think I could bear for one second browsing Reddit without having the subs carefully curated to my preferences.
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.
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
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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