The state of popular on Reddit

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!

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."
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.

Phoebe: "Enshittification has a specific meaning"

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

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
- Stay off of those .ml instances
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China
- Would you like to give that statement another go?
- Uyghurs say what?
- Hahahaha that’s a good joke.
- Prove you're not a bot:
  What event happened between April 15th and June 4th 1989 at Tiananmen Square?
- hoping this is sarcastic

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).
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

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.
- This just in: local Lemming thinks language barriers are racist.

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
ALOT OF car relate discussion from what ive glimpsed.

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.

Oh yeah the amount of "nice guy" shit I've seen posted is insane.
- Yeah, I agree. I just check in on it to see how bad it's gotten, really.

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.
Niet vaak, nee.
salamat poooo

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.

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)
- 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.
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.
- $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).

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.

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 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 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 was alive and watching TV when Friends was on. Lots of funny shit existed. This is not a valid excuse.

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

Why are you using popular?

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?"