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Seemingly the functionality for setting languages is never used, and a large portion of my new feed is from instances that are language specific (and not the language I speak).

I have set my language to English + Undefined, but it seems no one else can/will set their languages for their posts (leaving them as undefined).

I would like to bulk add these to my blocked instance. I know how to do this.

My question is just - is there a list of instance + language covering the main federated instances?

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[–] gedaliyah 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] breadsmasher 3 points 2 months ago

wonderful, thanks

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

A number of apps do not allow for language selection when posting or commenting.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I had a massive drop in non-English posts after setting it to English+Undefind, and then just blocked the half dozen communites that weren't properly set.

After typing that out I just remembered that other instances only show communities from the instance and those someone locally has subscribed to, so it is probably more of an issue on .world.

That sucks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Many instances are mixed language. Feddit.org for example is mainly German communities for now but is officially a German/English instance and one of the largest communities is c/Europe, which is in English. Blocking whole instances will block many English communities as well. Though I get that that might be an acceptable trade-off to get rid of a flood of posts you don't understand.

It's a shame the language selection doesn't work on many apps.

[–] credo 3 points 2 months ago

https://lemmyverse.net/

The main filter includes language.