UPDATE: Tom has now added the Undetermined language option to our instance. To make sure you can see the majority of Lemmy content from within your feddit.uk account, do the following:
Click your profile name - click settings - scroll down to the Languages box (not interface language) - hold down Ctrl (cmd on Mac) and select both English and Undetermined. On mobile browser: Tap the Languages box and make sure both are selected - scroll down and click save
You can also select any other languages which are beneficial to you.
If you don’t see everything listed in the box, try refreshing the page.
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Original Post
When viewing profile settings, you will see a box which says:
Warning: If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content.
On feddit.uk we currently have no selectable language option other than English. This means that (sometimes?) we will not see a lot of posts / comments on other instances / communities where the OP did not specifically select English before posting
See also: This Lemmy documentation under ‘Setting up your profile’
• Languages: Select the languages that you speak to see only content in these languages. This is a new feature and many posts don’t specify a language yet, so be sure to select “Undetermined” to see them.
Ideally, we need the ability to select English (or whatever language) AND undetermined - you can select multiple, as long as they are available.
When I view X community@instance from my lemmy.world account (with Undetermined language selected in profile settings), I can see all posts and comments. When I view the same community@instance from my feddit.uk account, there are missing posts and often 0 comments on everything. This needs addressing if possible!
Can probably unpin this now eh
I would if I could. I cringe every time I see my handle at the top of the homepage.
@[email protected] Could you un-feature my post now please? :)
Haha yeh done!
Other language options may be important in the future anyway. Say for example you are researching a trip to Madrid. You find some communities for Madrid but don’t see any posts because they are all in Spanish. If you could see them then you can always use a translation tool.
Granted for general browsing outside of that use case, I only want to see English.
Yeh I’ve just enabled them all sorry about the confusion, didn’t think selecting a language for the instance would be so restrictive.
It’s just not cached yet, if you give it time it should work. I experienced the same with ChatGPT sublemmy on another instance but now it works just fine.
Iv set my profile settings to English as I only want to see English content anyway and my issues with commenting and posting on other instances seems to have been fixed.
I’d love to be able to add more languages nonetheless. I’m from Denmark, but I can’t really see much in the feddit.dk instance because I can’t see things in Danish.
Yeh sorry about that, have enabled all languages
I don’t think it’s anything to do with caching. It specifically says in settings and in the Lemmy documentation that if you don’t select Undetermined, you won’t see a lot of content. This isn’t about posting or commenting it’s about being able to see content. To be honest I am clueless about it all but it’s not ideal if we can’t see content on other instances / communities. I just felt it was worth bringing attention to in case it is an issue.
Ah ffs I completely misread that box
I read it as, if you select Undetermined you will not see most content, the double negative really threw me. So on the instance admin I selected our language as English which I’ll change to undetermined now as it might explain a lot of the federation issue we’ve been having.
Thanks Tom, all my subscribe requests at lemmy.ml have suddenly gone through as well so I’d say this has solved a bunch of things simultaneously!
You can have both! I think you need to hold ctrl or alt or something and select English and Undetermined. I saw it in a post somewhere but I’ve lost it now. I agree the double negative is very confusing! Glad you’ve seen this post.
Yeh you’re right that’s even less intuitive from a UX perspective Changed to both undetermined and English
Maybe consider a sticky post so that everyone knows to go into their profile settings and select BOTH English and Undetermined by holding down Ctrl (command key on Mac)? Or sticky this one and I’ll add an update to the bottom.
