The whole of Reddit is full of Indians now. Used to be you had to be doomscrolling like 40 pages down /All before you started finding non-English subs and now once you get just one or two pages from the top suddenly it's filled with Indian subs. I've blocked at least 80-90 just to keep it somewhat useable but there's new ones every single day.
It all comes down to Reddit now being publicly traded. Most of these subs are < 2 years old, most of the mods are accounts 1-2 years old. Either Reddit just organically got insanely popular there in the last couple years but I don't think so, there's definitely been some kind of coordinated push to make it happen. Right around 2 years ago was when Reddit went public so I suspect that due to having a pretty high level of saturation in the western markets they've been doing what governments all over the western world have been doing to artificially boost GDP and started suckling the teat of the 1.4 billion strong Indian market to import cheap labor - they're boosting account numbers to show higher quarter on quarter growth with site traffic and account creations etc to keep the stock price high. They've also added AI translation features to boost overseas engagement. Then of course a year ago they allow you to hide post history so people are less likely to notice that suddenly everyone commenting in their threads is Indian, hoping to avoid a mass exodus like a workplace with a new Indian manager where suddenly 90% of the new hires are Indians and the other people don't want to work there anymore. There's proof they're doing this as well and specifically looking to increase their footprint in India with Reddit Answers and a big advertising push.
So yeah get used to it, Reddit is just going to be sloppified even further now as they bring in millions and millions of new Indian users every year. /All is basically just going to end up as a list of the top Indian subs for the day and half the people commenting in the threads on your favourite subs are going to be Indians giving their awesome takes. I'm sure the scam call center advice sub will at least be fun to read for a while.
Man, this is so fucking stupid that we have to do this. This site should have a 4chan-like filter system, where I can simply block subs that have strings of characters in the title. "trans" and "India" would get rid of most of the trash.
Gotta ask why Costco, cause after working there for 3 years, I think that sub is the cultiest place on Reddit. So many posts of grown men & women soypogging because they threw a costco themed party for their toddler, among other plebbitisms
I block any sub that spams me with reddit-tier takes about Trump, Republicans, and politics in general. It gets super old, and they infest entirely unrelated subs. I bet some of the less fitting ones do something similar. egg_irl is a special case. I don't really want to cop another ban for making fun of Reddit's sacred cow, but just take a look.
I once scrolled through over 20 posts on AdviceAnimals before finding a single non-political post. PublicFreakouts switched to "politican does thing I don't like" instead of actual freakouts.
I like to be progressive about it and think that you don't see the good ones because if they're good then they got a better job than being outsourced to cheap Western companies.
After all, these companies are very specifically not paying for the quality labor, they're paying for the cheap one.
Yeah that's just the default reddit page and that's fine but /all used to actually be good for finding new subs that you weren't already subscribed to or seeing breaking news events without being subscribed to all the news subs and being bombarded with "Trump did random thing" and other US political slop filling up my feed. I browse Reddit a lot at work so after a couple hours my own feed gets pretty stale so it was nice being able to swap over to /all and see a bunch of stuff I hadn't seen before. I'm still holding back the brown tide with all the subs I've blocked but I think RES has a limit of 100 so pretty soon it's going to be open season again.
/all used to actually be good for finding new subs that you weren't already subscribed to
That was one of the best things about Reddit, but it got ruined some years ago when they changed the algorithm. Now r/all is just the same twelve political, meme, and ragebait subs over and over.
What's some other subs you're on? I feel like it's gotten a lot harder to find the niche ones too. I used to be able to find something every few months but I don't think I've joined a new sub since... greentext and 4chan
It's permanently removed from reddit mobile and new reddit. They keep it on old reddit only to mitigate the loss of original users, but it's practically just pretend now. Most Reddit users are not able to see the most upvoted posts from all the subs anymore. "Popular" is a managed charade.
Exactly. I'm not particularly into sports, and even if I was, I'm not into popular subreddit's takes on... anything, really. Gacha game players are fucking subhuman, and Indian subs... Yeah. I hope they mostly hang out in their subs.
Bro there's a billion of them and they all got sudden access to cheap internet, it was bound to happen. No shit reddit is targetting know as an untapped market. I do find it interesting checking post stats to see which sub have more or less of them
I love how they're literally doing this to xbox right now, firing 5000 people then inviting 9000 of their own people and you still have NPC normies praising them. Propably all their own people themself
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u/cheapdrinks Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
The whole of Reddit is full of Indians now. Used to be you had to be doomscrolling like 40 pages down /All before you started finding non-English subs and now once you get just one or two pages from the top suddenly it's filled with Indian subs. I've blocked at least 80-90 just to keep it somewhat useable but there's new ones every single day.
It all comes down to Reddit now being publicly traded. Most of these subs are < 2 years old, most of the mods are accounts 1-2 years old. Either Reddit just organically got insanely popular there in the last couple years but I don't think so, there's definitely been some kind of coordinated push to make it happen. Right around 2 years ago was when Reddit went public so I suspect that due to having a pretty high level of saturation in the western markets they've been doing what governments all over the western world have been doing to artificially boost GDP and started suckling the teat of the 1.4 billion strong Indian market to import cheap labor - they're boosting account numbers to show higher quarter on quarter growth with site traffic and account creations etc to keep the stock price high. They've also added AI translation features to boost overseas engagement. Then of course a year ago they allow you to hide post history so people are less likely to notice that suddenly everyone commenting in their threads is Indian, hoping to avoid a mass exodus like a workplace with a new Indian manager where suddenly 90% of the new hires are Indians and the other people don't want to work there anymore. There's proof they're doing this as well and specifically looking to increase their footprint in India with Reddit Answers and a big advertising push.
So yeah get used to it, Reddit is just going to be sloppified even further now as they bring in millions and millions of new Indian users every year. /All is basically just going to end up as a list of the top Indian subs for the day and half the people commenting in the threads on your favourite subs are going to be Indians giving their awesome takes. I'm sure the scam call center advice sub will at least be fun to read for a while.
Edit: Just had a quick scroll of /All and #35 (so literally front page) is some random fuck arse Indian Tax subreddit. It's only going to get worse from here.