Can we get a "block all non-english/non-default language communities" button? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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I'm glad the people from Danelund and Germandy are doing their thing on Lemmy but I don't know what the fuck any of it means and it makes for a lot of block button tapping. A toggle would be very nice.

I know I can view subscribed and there's ways around this but I want an "all" feed I can read all of, with fewer taps.

Sync is great, thanks for everything!

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[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately, a lot of clients and users either don’t have the ability, or just don't bother, setting the post language at all, so it’s “undefined”. If you deselect undefined as a language, youll see vastly fewer posts from all languages

[-] maltasoron@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 months ago

Lemmy itself has a language filter you can use: https://lemmy.world/post/6148271

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately this removes anything marked as undefined, which also includes most of the English content. I've stuck to just blocking communities or whole instances where I can.

Lemmy could really use a tag system for communities, so you can opt out of things you don't want.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

You can select multiple options. Just leave "undefined" selected. You'll still get content in other languages marked undefined but it will at least filter out content with language set.

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

I feel like poland with all these germans invading me feed.

[-] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is a Lemmy, not a Sync setting. You can change this on web version

[-] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

I recently learned this, and changed mine to English only. I still see non-English communities in All. I suspect it's up to community owners to set the language of their community and a lot don't?

[-] viking@infosec.pub 8 points 2 months ago

Community owners and also on an individual post level (if the community is set to allow "undefined"). There's not a whole lot that can be done, client side, if the language is not properly set on the server.