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breadsmasher Jun 22, 2023

Is the language selection for Lemmy never used / pointless?

Is the language selection for Lemmy never used / pointless? - Lemmy.world

Solely because I can’t read anything but English, I keep blocking foreign language communities as its just noise for me. But I have selected Undefined/English as my languages in settings. It seems the language choice is never used by communities and posts? All of the .de instance posts seem to be “undefined” language. If they selected a specific language which matches their post language, it wouldn’t show up on my feed, right? And currently there isn’t a way to block whole instances as a user, as far as I understand. Will I have to just continuously hide foreign language communities as a user? I’m not suggesting defederating or anything like that, just making my own feed less “noisy”

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git Jun 22, 2023

I don't even have the language selection while posting from Jerboa. But like the others said most people probably won't use it becuase it is annoying to find the language on the slider menu without a search functionality each time. It would be used more if instances and users could select a default language for themselves

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Cold Hotman

most people probably won’t use it becuase it is annoying to find the language on the slider menu without a search functionality each time.

If you toggle off the languages you don't communicate in, the list gets dramatically shorter. I find it very easy to select the correct language from the total of three entries in my list.

It would be used more if instances and users could select a default language for themselves

I agree with the user default setting. Even with only a few options in the drop-down list, it's a chore to do it every time I post or comment.

On the other hand, communities are able to set accepted languages. For instance my regional communities in my local language don't allow English, and the English mirror-community don't allow my local language.

From my testing it is impossible to create a post in a language not accepted by the community. If English speaking communities chose to only allowed "English" I think things would be a bit different.