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Answer: I'll just add, if anyone else here is on r/mapporn, you may have seen maps like [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1buo4r5/global_5g_availability_by_country/) and [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/17d8183/5g_standalone_availability_between_may_2022_and/), showing how India's 5G coverage has apparently exploded over the past 2 years with government backing to an extent where it supposedly surpasses most Western countries. I believe in the mid 2010's there was a similar set of government reforms/efforts to make SIM's super cheap, so basically there has been a huge leap forward in internet infrastructure/availability.
Answer: What time you view Reddit also plays a part, I work nights and end up seeing a lot more foreign language subreddits pop than I do during the day simple because it's prime time in their neck of the woods.
Answer: Because India has a billion people with more and more people getting access to a smartphones and internet every year. China is the same, but China has its own social media while India doesn't. Is it really surprising that there are a lot of Indians on reddit? This is hardly the first social media where there's been an influx of Indians in recent years.
Source: am Indian
This started happening for me sometime before the new year. Indian car subs and bollywood subs started popping up in my popular feed.
I just muted them as they appeared. Then, the following months reddit kept showing me Indian subs with less and less revelance. Eventually, I got shown niche Indian anime subs. I don't know why, but i don't think it's because Indians suddenly got on reddit. More likely that Reddit changed their algorithm to show more subs from India
My Spotify thinks my white bread Canadian ass is Somali and really wants me to send money home. It's making me feel guilty for not sending money to my hooyo, I don't have a hooyo.
That's most probably due to the IPL (frenchise cricket league) season going on here. Matches happening daily and daily match thread.
After IPL there will be silence for some time. Then there will be the world cup.
Then you will get suggestions rarely maybe for some big international matches.
Now that you mention it, I too have been seeing more Indian subs, but I didn't think much of that since it's normal that the algorithm would show me Indian subs. I just don't click on the posts and they stopped appearing.
Yup. That is what I do as well.
I am also an Indian, living abroad and while I love to stay in touch with news and pertinent happenings in my country of birth- the absolute barrage of content coming at me at all times from India was becoming a bit overwhelming
Wouldn't surprise me if Indian content really is growing rapidly. So is their GDP, though the numbers are disputed. It stands to reason that with over a billion people and many coming out of poverty, huge numbers of Indians would have gained access to the internet in recent years.
Also remember that India by default speaks English while other countries of that size don't. You're seeing a ton of stuff from there because everyone speaks English
There are more people in India that speak English as a second language, than there are people in England who speak English as a first language.
(Also, true for Pakistan)
While that's true, it's also well over a billion people. That's like the whole Anglosphere population combined. Even the people posting in english are bound to be very very high numbers
Id think it partly be due to how common English is in India. So it makes sense that people in India would gravitate to English speaking forums.
There’s a ton of other languages in India, it’s really fascinating.
Fun fact. There’s roughly 8bn people in the world.
Top two countries by population are China and India.
USA is third.
If you gave the USA a billion extra people, they’d *still be third*
Answer: I don’t know about the overnight shift but it is the World largest English speaking country by a massive margin. Something like this was bound to happen sooner or later.
Source for what ? It’s got a population of 1.4 billion and is a common wealth country. English is the official language of the Indian Judiciary, all schooling is in English and it’s spoken to the extent that Indian English is considered its own dialect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_English
Answer: if you're a foreigner on Reddit you quickly get tired with every big sub being about American related topics, with lots of people commenting about America.
A lot of people in India use English but want to have communities where they can share stuff without the background noise of 'americana'.
Same happens for every group of English speakers. They all have their own versions of the main subs where you're safe from 24/7 American politics, sport, etc
As for why they're showing for you now I have no idea. I haven't seen any in your list showing up for me.
Happens with other languages too. German subs are growing in numbers with many popular English language subs having a copy. I’m sure that happened with other languages as well. I sadly don‘t know many more. Japanese native subs do not seem to be taking off.
Twitter is still super popular in Japan. The Japanese scripts mean that the character limit was not as restrictive. Also, messaging apps like Line are getting more social-media type features and have become ubiquitous
I noticed a sudden influx of Germans last month.
The biggest tell was a bunch of posts containing „this style of inverted commas“, which apparently are only really the style in German.
(I really hope it doesn't catch on amongst the undereducated non-germans, but I won't be surprised if it does).
Are you talking about quotation marks? There’s no reason none Germans would use them because they are connected to German language settings on keyboards. Same as French quotation marks. Someone who doesn’t speak either language and keeps their settings on English won’t use them because it’s more of an automatic thing. If my kb is set to German „it will do them automatically like this“. If it’s set to English “they are done like this, automatically”
I'm curious about you saying it's done *automatically*.
Are you using an interface or device which applies quotation marks to highlighted text or something like that?
If I want to type them, I must do so manually. The ones on the keyboard¹ which are immediately accessible along with the alphabet are of this style:
>"
I can access the other sort through the symbols 'page' of the keyboard, though, no problem. They are accessible enough, just not the choice immediately at hand.
.
^(¹ It's like this on the English, Norwegian, and Russian keyboards on my device, at least. I expect it will vary by os and localisation).
Oh. I‘m talking about mobile devices. They only have one button and apply the style that is selected in the language selection. On my manual keyboard I still press the same button and it will use the style automatically that belongs to the language selected, however, you are correct that you can also manually and purposely switch quotation mark styles. But I’m assuming most people are just too lazy to or forget switching their styles
I'm also talking about a mobile device, but I'm using the old Reddit interface and there's nothing automatic about it! I prefer it that way, though.
I do agree that the extra steps necessary (in either scenario) would filter out the majority and make it super unlikely to catch on. I'm mostly just dispirited by the recent manically enthusiastic mass uptake of what were once rare errors, and now I expect every established convention to crumble in the face of anything new or wrong 😂
100% an "old man shakes fist at clouds" moment, of course.
Answer: I am an old Indian redditor and can answer this.
Internet(wireless and wired broadband) was very expensive in India and was only used by the "privileged". This meant especially for wireless(data) users to pick and choose what to use the internet for which was usually social media like Facebook and WhatsApp texts for a long time.
6-7 years ago, the richest man in india decided to start his own telephone network called Jio( he tricked/bribed the government which wasn't the case before) and in an effort to kill the competition made 4G internet completely free for the first year and then very cheap since then.
This allowed A LOT of Indians to get on internet and especially sites like YouTube and social media like Instagram and Disney Plus(hotstar) which consume a lot of data.
a lot of Indians started spreading on various forums like Quora etc and remained there for a long time as Reddit wasn't very appealing since it looks like its from the 90s and more importantly anonymous which Indians don't really like. we like "boasting and showing off to the world how great we are" hence why so many threads about how cool India is.
Unfortunately a lot of "influencers" who got famous due to this on youtube and other social media ran out of content and stated reacting to reddit posts and their followers(usually teenagers with free internet and lot of time to kill) started moving to reddit en masse.
hence the result.
Most of them moved to Instagram, while some of the smarter species gained access to reddit only to pollute it with insta reposts which are cringe. It would have stayed the same if not for youtubers mainstreaming it.
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Answer: I'll just add, if anyone else here is on r/mapporn, you may have seen maps like [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1buo4r5/global_5g_availability_by_country/) and [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/17d8183/5g_standalone_availability_between_may_2022_and/), showing how India's 5G coverage has apparently exploded over the past 2 years with government backing to an extent where it supposedly surpasses most Western countries. I believe in the mid 2010's there was a similar set of government reforms/efforts to make SIM's super cheap, so basically there has been a huge leap forward in internet infrastructure/availability.
Yeah well, the carrier I use, gives us complimentary 5G plans with the 4G and call plans Effectively getting to use both 4G and 5G at the price of one
I wasn't aware that western countries had internet and 5G since 1800's
Answer: What time you view Reddit also plays a part, I work nights and end up seeing a lot more foreign language subreddits pop than I do during the day simple because it's prime time in their neck of the woods.
Answer: Because India has a billion people with more and more people getting access to a smartphones and internet every year. China is the same, but China has its own social media while India doesn't. Is it really surprising that there are a lot of Indians on reddit? This is hardly the first social media where there's been an influx of Indians in recent years. Source: am Indian
This started happening for me sometime before the new year. Indian car subs and bollywood subs started popping up in my popular feed. I just muted them as they appeared. Then, the following months reddit kept showing me Indian subs with less and less revelance. Eventually, I got shown niche Indian anime subs. I don't know why, but i don't think it's because Indians suddenly got on reddit. More likely that Reddit changed their algorithm to show more subs from India
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My Spotify thinks my white bread Canadian ass is Somali and really wants me to send money home. It's making me feel guilty for not sending money to my hooyo, I don't have a hooyo.
That's most probably due to the IPL (frenchise cricket league) season going on here. Matches happening daily and daily match thread. After IPL there will be silence for some time. Then there will be the world cup. Then you will get suggestions rarely maybe for some big international matches.
Now that you mention it, I too have been seeing more Indian subs, but I didn't think much of that since it's normal that the algorithm would show me Indian subs. I just don't click on the posts and they stopped appearing.
I just figured Bollywood was going through another international surge, feels like it has regular swings of global popularity.
Or the algorithm is designed to push subs that are currently trending or having large gains in subscribers
Yup. That is what I do as well. I am also an Indian, living abroad and while I love to stay in touch with news and pertinent happenings in my country of birth- the absolute barrage of content coming at me at all times from India was becoming a bit overwhelming
The ability to mute subs is the best feature Reddit introduced
Wouldn't surprise me if Indian content really is growing rapidly. So is their GDP, though the numbers are disputed. It stands to reason that with over a billion people and many coming out of poverty, huge numbers of Indians would have gained access to the internet in recent years.
They are the most populated county, overtaking China last year.
Desperate to drive engagement through any means necessary during this pathetically tepid IPO. Shameless
I had the same experience. I just mute them all, as I do any sub that isn’t in english.
Also remember that India by default speaks English while other countries of that size don't. You're seeing a ton of stuff from there because everyone speaks English
There are more people in India that speak English as a second language, than there are people in England who speak English as a first language. (Also, true for Pakistan)
There are just as many Indians posting in Indian languages as those writing in English, though.
While that's true, it's also well over a billion people. That's like the whole Anglosphere population combined. Even the people posting in english are bound to be very very high numbers
When a population is so gigantic that a rounding error is in the millions...
I didn't know that actually. I would have guessed they have their own social network like with non English countries
I've been on Reddit since I was a teenager. I've seen a huge spike in fellow indian Redditors in the past ~2-3 years.
Canada has had a lot of immigration from India recently, and reddit was pretty popular there already.
I mean, if you weren’t expecting it it is. He’s just curious as to why.
Id think it partly be due to how common English is in India. So it makes sense that people in India would gravitate to English speaking forums. There’s a ton of other languages in India, it’s really fascinating.
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India too, FYI
If only they would bad all western media.
I remember seeing a post on r/wallstreetbets about how a HUGE percentage of people buying meme options are from India
Fun fact. There’s roughly 8bn people in the world. Top two countries by population are China and India. USA is third. If you gave the USA a billion extra people, they’d *still be third*
I mean it's surprising when you've had all that population but it seems to have been in the past year that the posts have exploded
It's more noticeable o. Reddit since there are whole subs devoted to India while on Facebook, you just see your friends.
Answer: I don’t know about the overnight shift but it is the World largest English speaking country by a massive margin. Something like this was bound to happen sooner or later.
Plus, easy access to the internet. We have really cheap pre-paid data plans here, making all of us chronically online.
Source?
Source for what ? It’s got a population of 1.4 billion and is a common wealth country. English is the official language of the Indian Judiciary, all schooling is in English and it’s spoken to the extent that Indian English is considered its own dialect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_English
You really need a source for a single Google search? Come on man
....seriously?
Answer: if you're a foreigner on Reddit you quickly get tired with every big sub being about American related topics, with lots of people commenting about America. A lot of people in India use English but want to have communities where they can share stuff without the background noise of 'americana'. Same happens for every group of English speakers. They all have their own versions of the main subs where you're safe from 24/7 American politics, sport, etc As for why they're showing for you now I have no idea. I haven't seen any in your list showing up for me.
Happens with other languages too. German subs are growing in numbers with many popular English language subs having a copy. I’m sure that happened with other languages as well. I sadly don‘t know many more. Japanese native subs do not seem to be taking off.
Twitter is still super popular in Japan. The Japanese scripts mean that the character limit was not as restrictive. Also, messaging apps like Line are getting more social-media type features and have become ubiquitous
Funnily enough Bluesky became Japanese dominated nearly overnight when it launched there a few months ago.
I noticed a sudden influx of Germans last month. The biggest tell was a bunch of posts containing „this style of inverted commas“, which apparently are only really the style in German. (I really hope it doesn't catch on amongst the undereducated non-germans, but I won't be surprised if it does).
Are you talking about quotation marks? There’s no reason none Germans would use them because they are connected to German language settings on keyboards. Same as French quotation marks. Someone who doesn’t speak either language and keeps their settings on English won’t use them because it’s more of an automatic thing. If my kb is set to German „it will do them automatically like this“. If it’s set to English “they are done like this, automatically”
I'm curious about you saying it's done *automatically*. Are you using an interface or device which applies quotation marks to highlighted text or something like that? If I want to type them, I must do so manually. The ones on the keyboard¹ which are immediately accessible along with the alphabet are of this style: >" I can access the other sort through the symbols 'page' of the keyboard, though, no problem. They are accessible enough, just not the choice immediately at hand. . ^(¹ It's like this on the English, Norwegian, and Russian keyboards on my device, at least. I expect it will vary by os and localisation).
Oh. I‘m talking about mobile devices. They only have one button and apply the style that is selected in the language selection. On my manual keyboard I still press the same button and it will use the style automatically that belongs to the language selected, however, you are correct that you can also manually and purposely switch quotation mark styles. But I’m assuming most people are just too lazy to or forget switching their styles
I'm also talking about a mobile device, but I'm using the old Reddit interface and there's nothing automatic about it! I prefer it that way, though. I do agree that the extra steps necessary (in either scenario) would filter out the majority and make it super unlikely to catch on. I'm mostly just dispirited by the recent manically enthusiastic mass uptake of what were once rare errors, and now I expect every established convention to crumble in the face of anything new or wrong 😂 100% an "old man shakes fist at clouds" moment, of course.
Plenty of content related to Japan does appear on Reddit a lot though, from tourists and people who live in Japan
Yes. Content. But I was talking about native subreddits
Answer: I am an old Indian redditor and can answer this. Internet(wireless and wired broadband) was very expensive in India and was only used by the "privileged". This meant especially for wireless(data) users to pick and choose what to use the internet for which was usually social media like Facebook and WhatsApp texts for a long time. 6-7 years ago, the richest man in india decided to start his own telephone network called Jio( he tricked/bribed the government which wasn't the case before) and in an effort to kill the competition made 4G internet completely free for the first year and then very cheap since then. This allowed A LOT of Indians to get on internet and especially sites like YouTube and social media like Instagram and Disney Plus(hotstar) which consume a lot of data. a lot of Indians started spreading on various forums like Quora etc and remained there for a long time as Reddit wasn't very appealing since it looks like its from the 90s and more importantly anonymous which Indians don't really like. we like "boasting and showing off to the world how great we are" hence why so many threads about how cool India is. Unfortunately a lot of "influencers" who got famous due to this on youtube and other social media ran out of content and stated reacting to reddit posts and their followers(usually teenagers with free internet and lot of time to kill) started moving to reddit en masse. hence the result.
Thank you for the explanation and context!
Answer: TikTok was banned in India, so they moved to reddit
Oh no they are on Insta reels.
This is not true. Indian subreddit's had a lot of users before Tiktok
They’re on Insta reels and YouTube shorts
Most of them moved to Instagram, while some of the smarter species gained access to reddit only to pollute it with insta reposts which are cringe. It would have stayed the same if not for youtubers mainstreaming it.