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
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    6 days 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.

  • HeyMrDeadMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days 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?”

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days 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.

    • Konstant@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      It is not good. Lots of corny jokes and expressions. But it was in the 90s so I’ll give them a break.

    • dermanus@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 days ago

      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.

    • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 days 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.

  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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    7 days 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
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    7 days 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.

    • Tangent5280@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      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.

      • shawn1122@sh.itjust.works
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        5 days 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).

    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      Problem is that OP says he’s not logged in to reddit. Gotta be logged in to customize & filter the feed.

      Most of us are here on Lemmy after being permabanned from Reddit, which means we can’t login to Reddit. Can’t even make a new account.

    • discount_door_garlic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days 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
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        6 days 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.

    • Sprawl@lemmy.world
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      8 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
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        8 days 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
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          6 days 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
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          8 days 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.

  • pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 days ago

    Phoebe: “Enshittification has a specific meaning”

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

  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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    8 days 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 racest broken english accents that are most of what you see on the “indian” subreddits.

  • s@piefed.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    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

  • stabby_cicada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 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.

  • tfi@lemmy.world
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    8 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!