See title. I have to scroll past a lot of German and other non-English posts in my feed. I’ve been blocking them as I see them, but it’s getting tiring. Is there not some way to just tell Lemmy the languages I speak and have it show me only those?
See title. I have to scroll past a lot of German and other non-English posts in my feed. I’ve been blocking them as I see them, but it’s getting tiring. Is there not some way to just tell Lemmy the languages I speak and have it show me only those?
Blocking the communities? There aren’t that many non-English comms so blocking all those comms shouldn’t be too bothersome.
You can also opt to block the whole instance, if the whole instance is language-specific. This is a new feature in Lemmy 0.19. This is effectively the same as blocking all comms from that instance; it will not block users from that instance and you’ll still see their comments in other comms :)
There is actually this exact feature if you look in the settings. But most posts don’t bother specifying a language and the language is not detected automatically AFAIK. So it’s not too helpful. But blocking the non-English comms should be sufficient.
Communities can be configured to only allow one language. It’s the case for most of the French speaking communities for instance
Yeah this covers everything.
The “language” setting would be vastly more useful if you could select a default post language, as well as apps implementing language as a choice when making a comment.
You’ll never be in doubt whether I posted something from app or web, as I actually have the possibility to specify the language when using the web interface, which otherwise is “undefined” by default.