Why is reddit pushing Indian subreddits so aggressively?

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I’ve spent so much time blocking every subreddit from India but there just seems to be an unending flow of them. I must have blocked 30 or 40 but they keep popping up.

I get that india is a big place, but why is reddit pushing subreddits to me (someone who can only speak/read english) that are in languages I don’t understand?

Comments

  1. PriorKaleidoscope196 Avatar

    Probably because at some point you either clicked on an Indian subreddit, or you used a VPN to make yourself look like you’re from India. I’ve not seen a single Indian subreddit. Somewhere, somehow you told the algorithm you’re interested in it, or capable of speaking it.

  2. Curmudgy Avatar

    I never see them but then I never use the popular feed. Start using the home feed instead.

  3. sawbonesromeo Avatar

    Its called an algorithm. You clicked on or lingered over a post that was either from one of these subreddits or was popular with people who use these subreddits.

  4. Few-Coat1297 Avatar

    I’ve seen three today alone. Weird.

  5. Absurdity_Everywhere Avatar

    Have you blocked or hidden major subs or users? I’ve found that once I started blocking spam and rage bait that Reddit started digging deeper to suggest content. I get a lot of Indian subs as well as some Filipino ones. I’ve never used a VPN with Reddit or visited either of those countries.

  6. TheGreatButz Avatar

    I’ve never seen one in my life. Reddit’s algorithms are weird.

  7. Neon_Nuxx Avatar

    Superpower by 2026

  8. Naive-Beekeeper67 Avatar

    I’ve never encountered one! Not even one

  9. Lunagoodie Avatar

    Saaar superpower byb2020 saar!!!!

  10. dustinechos Avatar

    Most likely the algorithm somehow thinks you’re interested. And you are now. 

    All hail the algorithm.

  11. inobody_somebody Avatar

    You can turn off recommendations in settings. I stopped seeing them after i turned it off.

  12. Destroyer6202 Avatar

    What… I never even see one..?

  13. debunk101 Avatar

    Never seen one in my feed

  14. hawthorne00 Avatar

    I like cricket, so I get some Indian subreddits suggested. Mostly they’re in English – which alas I need them to be. Some of them I am interested in and some of them are torrents of awfulness. So much like the rest of reddit really.