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Hide posts in other languages? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by TheLazurus@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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Is there any way to hide posts in other languages? My homepage is filled with German posts, which would be great if I spoke German...

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[–] BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think the problem is that on some/?all instances the default language is set to either undefined or English. I've noticed its undefined on lemmy that I have used, while on Kbin it's set to the language I set to read - English. So if people don't change the language they will be posting undefined text or in English inadvertently.

My account is set to show undefined and English posts only but I'm seeing a lot of German content.

[–] static@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We're working with alfa and beta software.
Ideally the mods could set the default language on the magazine/community, there are a few english communities on feddit.de
And with prefs you could select to hide certain languages.

[–] Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

That's not my experience, I don't have kbin in english, but the comments are still automatically set to english. I can't set them to undefined either (*cry in emoji).

It would be pretty cool if it would detect it automatically by default.