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How to filter out non-English posts? (self.asklw)

submitted 2 weeks ago by voracread to c/asklw

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I am a non-native English speaker. But I cannot understand any language other than English and my native language. Right now my All feeds are littered with French, Danish, Italian or whatever other languages of which I have no clue about.

I just want to have an English only feed.

I am concerned becauase it is often said that setting language to anything other than Undetermjned will lead to loss of many posts.

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[–] voracread 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I have been doing that but still there are too many.

How do I check/uncheck languages? I get only a drop down menu with a highlighted language. No way to visually identify which is checked.

[–] Iheartcheese 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I go by all and I see like maybe five non-english posts a day?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Same. It also depends on the time of day. Even the German meme posts have died down a lot though, (unless i blocked them.)

[–] HonoraryMancunian 2 points 2 weeks ago

Do you sort by top of the hour? That's the only time I've seen way too many non-English posts.

[–] HoneyMustardGas 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How are you accessing it? App or website?

[–] voracread 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mainly by app Raccoon for Lemmy, also Boost for Lemmy.

[–] HoneyMustardGas 1 points 2 weeks ago