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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@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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

[-] coldhotman@nrsk.no 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Kwaker76@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I'm new to Lemmy and on my first day trying to get to grips with it, I couldn't post a comment because the Community wouldn't allow the language (I was posting in English and all the other comments on the post were in English, and my language settings are set to Undefined and English). The whole language selection is actually a blocker to engagement at times.

[-] coldhotman@nrsk.no 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] sp6@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I found that the "language selection" box was bugged on desktop and wouldn't actually apply my settings, but when I tried it on a mobile browser, it worked and I no longer see really any foreign language posts.

You can double check if it worked by trying to type a post/comment and then hitting the "select language" box. If only your selected languages appear, it worked.

[-] coldhotman@nrsk.no 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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