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”
I know at least when I’m posting on kbin instances, undefined isn’t really an option – if you don’t set the language, the post won’t go through.
On other fediverse instances, there’s actually auto-detection of language as an option, followed by auto-translation. I think the lemmy devs are up to their armpits in alligators at the moment, but I wouldn’t be surprised if eventually both features come to lemmy once things calm down.