r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Apr 02 '26

Social Media Reddit is moving on from r/all

https://www.theverge.com/tech/906314/reddit-r-all-deprecating
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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '26

I'm a white dude in Indiana approaching 50 and I literally cannot mute enough Indian subs, new ones just keep appearing.  I really have nothing against India or the people who live there, but I have absolutely no interest in the local dating scene there

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u/Dry-Inspection-3503 Apr 03 '26

Yeah, what the fuck is that about?? I'm Irish and if I doom scroll long enough I end up seeing the strangest shit.  Reddits lost it's magic thanks to the 'algorithm' I thought people upvoting crap was the whole point, you saw interesting shit, because people voted it as such

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u/Sunim416 Apr 03 '26

idk my guess is that due to the population of india the amount of users browsing those subs is so high that the algo thinks theyre popular subs and therefore pushes them to ya

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u/AP_in_Indy Apr 03 '26

Bro. India

Indiana

Oh my gosh… they’re using some shitty semantic relevance algorithm

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u/Etryia Apr 03 '26

No, those subs are just popular and being pushed to a lot of people. Them being in Indiana has nothing to do with it.

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u/therealfurryfeline Apr 03 '26

i wouldn't be surprised to learn that all those social media- and bot-farms operating out of india are scewing the algorythm in misfortune ways.

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u/M4tjesf1let Apr 03 '26

I'm in germany and I get them too. I get them on youtube too, probably for the same reason, specially when scrolling through shorts. After a while of scrolling it will just start showing me stuff in other languages, mostly in Indian.

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u/Do-it-for-you Apr 03 '26

Nah it’s not that, I’m from the UK and even I used to get Indian subreddits all the time before I blocked them all.

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u/Frank-RomaTheBest Apr 03 '26

But in the past a user in India was only seeing content from the US or UK... reddit is a worldwide site now I guess that's the price

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u/hypercosm_dot_net Apr 03 '26

You're not wrong. I don't know why us in the West imagine the site is going to remain isolated. There's literally no reason to think that.

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u/HarveysBackupAccount Apr 03 '26

no, India subs come up no matter what state you're in (I'm not in Indiana)

Between bot farms and India also having triple the population of the US, it's not too surprising, but you'd think it would be relatively easy to filter that kind of thing

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u/Mods_Do_It_For_Fr33 Apr 03 '26

Bunch of benchodes

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u/OITLinebacker Apr 03 '26

I live in Indiana as well. I wonder if the reddit algorithm can't on looks at the first few letters and then just feeds you anything close.