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”

  • Knoll0114@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I personally would like to see posts in 4 languages and as far as I can tell it won’t let me specify more than one in my profile so I just leave it on undefined. I’m having I guess the opposite issue to you in that I’m only seeing English content when I would like to see some in my other (non-native) languages for better immersion.

    • godless@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      You need to hold Ctrl + click on the languages you want.

      However new posts are set to “undefined” by default and most peoplenever change it, so the whole feature seems a bit useless for now.

      I guess once we have significantly large and diversified communities, it will make more sense.