Right now, Lemmy only lets you pick one language to see and forces you to manually choose a language every time you post. Because of that, most posts end up marked as “undetermined,” so filtering by language hides most content.

It would make more sense if:

  • You could set multiple preferred languages to view posts and comments.
  • You could set a default posting language instead of picking it every time.
  • The initial language settings were auto-filled based on browser or system language.

This would make the language functionality much more useful.

  • Lazycog@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Correct me if I’m wrong but you can select multiple viewing languages. It’s just slightly unintuitive in lemmy-ui: hold either CTRL or SHIFT (I forgot, apologies) while you select languages in your profile settings.

    The default posting language/allowed languages are decided on community level by mods.

    Edit: didn’t want to just say unintuitive without offering an alternative, so: visible checkboxes would maybe be more intuitive?