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Lemmy language options are both confusing, and don't do what they're intended to do
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this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2023
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If you're on desktop you can hold ctrl and make multiple language selections. I have undetermined and English selected.
As to why this is even a thing that needs to be set I have no idea either.
The intent is to label content by language so that people can easily filter out languages they can't read. The presumption that English, say, is the default language because the big websites are all US based doesn't really hold in the Fediverse, where a lot of users, historically, were from Europe.
But the feature's just kind of... broken right now, though.
The Lemmy UI is terrible and as tagging isn't actually mandatory in Lemmy, most posts just fall under "undetermined".
Kbin has mandatory tagging - yay - but the list has maybe only like a dozen languages and I don't Kbin has the filtering implemented anyway. Though I have to say having Finnish as an option but no Swedish does make just a tiny bit happy.
I'm not sure if mandatory tagging is such a good idea. Et si vous mélangez deux langues dans un seul commentaire?
Yeah, as far as I can tell in the Lemmy UI there is no way to select a default post or comment language.
Lemmy has svenska.
That means I should select the language I write into for all the posts/comments I write? Wow.
Just to point that this is the default and "obvious" behavior for lists since the 90's (or, rather the 80's if you count Unixes GUIs). Yet almost nobody knows it for some reason (probably because it's not obvious at all, but IDK).
That and I think in many cases people opt for the ol' box select when trying to select multiple options in a GUI, even if it's in list view.
Multiselect lists are outdated design, requiring prior knowledge of what they are and the use of keyboard (that you might not have if using a touchscreen device) for a simple interaction with a webpage is terrible UX. The issue is that it's how browsers render them by default, a 'proper' multiselect requires a bunch of css and javascript.
yeah, that's what i'm sayin