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Should I be adding the "Language" tag to all of my posts and comments? (self.lemmy)

submitted 2 years ago by Kalcifer to c/[email protected]

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For all of my comments and posts, I have been selecting the "English" tag (side note, it would be fantastic if I could configure a default. Better yet, it would be nice if a community could set a default, and I default to that). Is this good practice? Or is this having some unintended side effect that I am not aware of? I'm guessing that it just makes filtering easier for people that filter by a language so that they only see posts of that language.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Without realizing, I tagged my last few posts as "English." If I go into my user settings and select "Undetermined" in my languages, they become invisible to me. If I select English, they become visible but now a huge number of posts on the site disappear. If I deselect ALL languages, then I can finally see most things (maybe?). It's kind of a mess and I think the safest bet is to just not select a one at all for your posts until they overhaul the languages.

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

I believe you can select multiple languages. It's to allow you to filter the feed down to only content in your preferred language. The default is undetermined so that's what most of the posts are in.