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

  • AwesomeLowlander
    29•25 days ago

    If anything, I’m annoyed at the amount of foreign language posts that don’t tag their actual language.

  • Obinice
    6•25 days ago

    I wonder if it’s English, or American English 😅

    (Thank you for the tip by the way I had no idea!)

  • SineSwiperEnglish
    5•25 days ago

    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.

  • username
    2•25 days ago

    Thank you so much. I didn’t know about this and I just assumed that was a federation error or something like that. I never would’ve thought that it was because of my settings 🫠