Example of a user not being able to see posts because of incorrect language settings configuration: https://feddit.org/post/8656952
This has been fixed in version 0.19.9, but if your instance is running an older version that that, make sure to check that in your account language settings (the checklist, not the interface language):
- all the languages you speak are selected (for instance, Undetermined and English)
- or that you don’t have anything selected (in that case, you are going to see all the languages)
Selecting a language is done by Ctrl + Click on a desktop
Why do you have to control-click to select langauge? I couldn’t figure out how to have multiple when setting up my account, only just realised reading this post. Surely a simple multi select dropdown would be better.
If anything, I’m annoyed at the amount of foreign language posts that don’t tag their actual language.
This is a problem with Lemmy’s defaults. Every single post has to be set as English, instead of allowing the user set a default language.
It’s not the fault of the user. It’s a bug. I just checked and no, I cannot set a default language for my posts. If they want to fix the viewing problem long-term, they need to fix this default posting language problem first.