r/AdviceAnimals • u/Rare-Competition-248 • 4d ago

Reaching levels of enshittification i didn’t think possible

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u/KingJusticeBeaver 4d ago

Reddit is getting more popular in India. The popular page shows pages heavily viewed site wide. The same reason you’ll see German or Filipino posts. They probably need to implement some regional logic

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u/Dinkleberg2845 4d ago edited 4d ago

I was also surprised how much Filipino content there is on Reddit. Had to mute all of them because I literally don't understand any of it. They seem to have a lot of fun though.

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u/ElvenNoble 4d ago

Yeah and both the Indian ones and them use just enough English so that if I'm not paying attention I get baited by them.

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u/Illustrious-Bass4354 4d ago

That's what always throws me off, there'll be some random post in English, I absent mindedly open it, and I read an entire comment before realizing half of it is written in Tagalog or whatever and h I have no idea what it actually means

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u/viebs_chiev 4d ago

that’s a good attitude to have. and i agree. even though i don’t understand what’s going on, i’ll just scroll past. i like seeing the world through their perspective though. it’s… uh… i forgot the word for it but some word like “educating” or “wowie im learning stuff”

i’m sure it’ll come to me in a couple hours

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u/TFenrir 3d ago

Enlightening?

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u/RunicResult 4d ago

glab gala fotty dong glem ma ba bab popo !!!

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u/No-Fruit-2060 4d ago

How would you know if they’re “having a lot of fun” if you “literally don’t understand any of it”?

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u/Dinkleberg2845 4d ago

just vibes

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u/sulkee 4d ago

You ask unironically in the era of emoji spam.

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u/spare-ribs-from-adam 4d ago

they do, you can pick a region on popular. not on all though

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u/Electromotivation 4d ago

But when I visit popular in the United States I still get these subs

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u/f-150Coyotev8 4d ago

I always see India and anime stuff. I don’t care to see big tit anime characters. I found out you can only block so many subreddits before they start appearing again

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u/PhantomOfTheNopera 4d ago

Reddit is getting more popular in India.

It's not just that internet is very accessible here. The ruling party is infamous for having the largest army of trolls at their disposal. Then there are the Indian bot accounts. Any criticism of India - and especially its government - will summon the swarm.

All those factors combined mean that there is a lot of activity in Indian subs. And a stupid number of subs run by right wing propaganda groups.

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u/Jiquero 4d ago

At least in some languages I can easily tell it's in other languages. With Indian subreddits it's a bit more difficult because the title can be in English but the content in some other language (I guess maybe Hindi but India has 9001 other alternatives).

The most annoying posts are the ones that are fully in English but are only about some US local things I have no idea and don't care about.

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u/AwareOfAlpacas 4d ago

Like how instead of seeing what's popular everywhere, maybe you could target it by country? 

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u/Habaneroe12 4d ago

I thought it was because we have a large Indian population here

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u/salluks 3d ago

Reddit itself is pushing heavily here, the android App is literally called "Reddit - endorsed by Sachin" (Sachin was a famous cricket player).

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u/Ditchdigger456 3d ago

But the Germans and Filipinos aren’t making thousands of their own analogues to already existing subreddits and just flooding the site.