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?
https://join-lemmy.org/instances
You can select language, topics, sort style.
wonderful, thanks
A number of apps do not allow for language selection when posting or commenting.
The main filter includes language.
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.
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.
