Yeah, in a system where anyone can create any sub, they need significantly finer-grained filters to improve discovery and prevent manual curation of block lists. Like you shouldn’t be able to create an instance &/or sub without declaring a language (apparently the reason you see foreign language posts is because those instances/subs haven’t set their language, or set it wrong). You should have to categorise what your sub is about, and have to set a location. These don’t need to be hyper restrictive. They could be very open ended. They just need to simplify the experience for users to filter out all the crap they don’t care about with minimal effort.
Would be nice if regional communities could be tagged by language, andnsports tags for sports communities. That would make it easier to find thosez and optionally block them by tags.
Yes, but the thing is that most people submit non-english content using the Undetermined language, defeating the purpose of filtering out other languages.
Another issue is that communities can disable some languages, but as a user you don’t see which ones are enabled/disabled.
Never hesitate to politely point it out to the community. I’m part of a few French speaking communities, we always make sure to only enable French and to indicate it in the sidebar
user has all languages available, so French would be used as the common language with the community
user only has a few languages selected, including French, so same as above
user doesn’t have French in their languages, in that case they usually ask in the support community (which allows every language) and see that it’s a common issue
Quid dicebas de me, cinaede? Tibi narro ut auctus sim super omnes Praetorianos, ut permultas incursiones contra carthaginienses fecerim, utque CCC hostes uere interfecerim. Educatus de bello simioso sum atque augustissimus Primus Pilus in exercitu romano. Nihil te puto nisi hostia. Te delebo tanta cum fortitudine ut nemo parem nouerit, mehercule. Putasne ut electrice id dicere impune possis? Reputa, pathice. Cum loquimur nuntium mitto ad gregem curiosorum et locus tuus indagatur, ut debeas te praeparare contra tempestatem, uermicule. Tempestas enim quae delebit foedam uitam tuam. Delendus es, puer. Possum ubiuis ire, quandocumque decet, teque interficere DCC per artes manibus inermibus. Non modo educatus de certamine inermi sum, sed etiam imperium habeo super omnes uires exercitus romani, atque eis utar ut culus tuus miser deletus sit ex continente, cacator. Si scire potuisses quod ultioni tibi effecturum facetum dictum tuum fuisset, fortasse tacuisses. Sed nec potuisti nec tacuisti, et nunc poenas das, stulte. Furorem cacabo in te et is te merget. Delendus es, puer.
Also regional, sports-teams and languages I don’t understand
Yeah, in a system where anyone can create any sub, they need significantly finer-grained filters to improve discovery and prevent manual curation of block lists. Like you shouldn’t be able to create an instance &/or sub without declaring a language (apparently the reason you see foreign language posts is because those instances/subs haven’t set their language, or set it wrong). You should have to categorise what your sub is about, and have to set a location. These don’t need to be hyper restrictive. They could be very open ended. They just need to simplify the experience for users to filter out all the crap they don’t care about with minimal effort.
Would be nice if regional communities could be tagged by language, andnsports tags for sports communities. That would make it easier to find thosez and optionally block them by tags.
That option is there. It’s just half-ass implemented and not enforced.
There is definitely some room for improvement.
Did you try select only Undetermined and English in your account language settings?
Yes, but the thing is that most people submit non-english content using the Undetermined language, defeating the purpose of filtering out other languages.
Another issue is that communities can disable some languages, but as a user you don’t see which ones are enabled/disabled.
Never hesitate to politely point it out to the community. I’m part of a few French speaking communities, we always make sure to only enable French and to indicate it in the sidebar
Now I’m wondering, does that cause an issue when posting or commenting with a third-party apps, which might not have the ability to assign a language?
There are basically three options
Can you do that in voyager or do you need the official website to do that?
Not sure about voyager, the settings are available in the standard UI for sure
私について一体何言ってんだ、このクソ野郎？知っておいていただきたいのですが、私は東京の大学を首席で卒業し、lemmy に関する多数のインターネット投稿に参加し、300 件以上のブーストを受けてきました。私は日本語の訓練を受けており、日本政府全体のトップの通訳者です。
Quid dicebas de me, cinaede? Tibi narro ut auctus sim super omnes Praetorianos, ut permultas incursiones contra carthaginienses fecerim, utque CCC hostes uere interfecerim. Educatus de bello simioso sum atque augustissimus Primus Pilus in exercitu romano. Nihil te puto nisi hostia. Te delebo tanta cum fortitudine ut nemo parem nouerit, mehercule. Putasne ut electrice id dicere impune possis? Reputa, pathice. Cum loquimur nuntium mitto ad gregem curiosorum et locus tuus indagatur, ut debeas te praeparare contra tempestatem, uermicule. Tempestas enim quae delebit foedam uitam tuam. Delendus es, puer. Possum ubiuis ire, quandocumque decet, teque interficere DCC per artes manibus inermibus. Non modo educatus de certamine inermi sum, sed etiam imperium habeo super omnes uires exercitus romani, atque eis utar ut culus tuus miser deletus sit ex continente, cacator. Si scire potuisses quod ultioni tibi effecturum facetum dictum tuum fuisset, fortasse tacuisses. Sed nec potuisti nec tacuisti, et nunc poenas das, stulte. Furorem cacabo in te et is te merget. Delendus es, puer.