I find myself blocking a lot of foreign communities just because they’re foreign. It feels wrong and unnecessary. This is the future isn’t it?

If I set my settings to English why can’t I just use Lemmy in English and never know that the person I’m chatting to is doing so in German and they never know that I’m doing so in English?

  • dfyxAEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    In Lemmy, you can choose your languages under Settings -> Languages. The main problem is that Lemmy currently doesn’t have any mechanism to automatically determine a post’s language and instead relies on users to set the language for each post and comment. Therefore most content is marked as “Undetermined”.

    • synae[he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Seems like submitting a post should require setting a language for it :/ No need to “determine” the language when the submitter can simply note what it is. The default for the field could even be their set profile language to make it easier.