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.
Why are you using popular?
Fellas, is this thread racist?
It sure seems that way. Lotta up votes for a racist thread, which isn’t great.
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.
At least here you can just filter the languages you understand, in case you are american that would be only one.
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.
To get views from English speaking YouTube, which pays more in ad revenue, after learning one phrase.
Imagine how much more they could make if they just did the whole video in English.
Chat, am I racist for disliking German subs and blocking on sight?
Nein, das ist okay.
Ja, aber sie haben es verdient
This just in: local Lemming thinks language barriers are racist.
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?”
Stop making Lemmy worse. Don’t post pictures of text.
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.
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
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
Prove you’re not a bot:
What event happened between April 15th and June 4th 1989 at Tiananmen Square?
Uyghurs say what?
Hahahaha that’s a good joke.
Wait you actually aren’t joking lmao
hoping this is sarcastic
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!
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
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?
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.
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.
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!
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.
ALOT OF car relate discussion from what ive glimpsed.
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
Shitpost gets updoots from everyone, serious posts get updoots from serious people.
So you didn’t see any of the political or regional ones? They have as many diverse topics as other languages.
Not that I remember. And I did spend some time trying to figure some of the posts out. Not sure why that was.
I think it’s hillarious that as I’m scrolling through lemmy it’s suddenly like: GERFRETSWHEILEZAUHAUERFLURGEN WÜT MAUKERWARPSLPOT
Then back to english
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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I was alive and watching TV when Friends was on. Lots of funny shit existed. This is not a valid excuse.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
I judge them for the indulgence in nostalgia and having the nostalgia in the first place
There is no limit to my judging power
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.
Frasier is still pretty good though, if you can get over the laugh track
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.
I keep getting recommend weird anti-muslim British subreddits.
Im not even British.
Might be some hidden overlap in these problems
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.
Uh… that’s literally the point of r/popular, it shows you popular stuff.
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
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).
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
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.
looks like shit thanks for posting
Designated shitting subs
theres has been so many indian subs and posts recently, just right after when musk and trump were railing on H1-B VISAS.
Do you ever wander into a Filipino sub and tfoggalo mpaktak angdoo wopadidamo ardvarawak?
salamat poooo
No jajajaja
Niet vaak, nee.
