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.

  • shawn1122@sh.itjust.works
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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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      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.

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        $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).

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      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)

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        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.