cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46761610

Like when you set it to English in ya profile Settings you get this error message: “Warning: If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content.”.

When you post, when you make communities, that setting is everywhere and it’s just confusing the hell outta me and I’m scared to select English anywhere tbh

When I had it on English, I couldn’t even see any replies and comments at all anymore. Took me like a week to figure out why! 😱

Left this post on “Select language”, but when I added these last 2 sentences with the “Edit” option, without changing anything about the language, it gave me this error “Language not allowed” and I had to switch it to “English”.

After changing the language to “English” I was unable to see it from the 2 crossposts or the profile page. Like you can only see the crossposts from the original post, but the original post is not visible from the crossposts ;)

Had to press the “X”-button next to “Undetermined” to make comments and the “English” post appear again.

  • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net
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    2 days ago

    AFAIK most clients don’t automatically tag posts as any language, so almost everything is lumped under undetermined. When I post from voyager I don’t have an option to select the language.

    Some former software like kbin automatically tagged language and added hashtags automatically to make posts discoverable by microblog fedi communities. Maybe mbin or piefed are currently using that capability?

    But I think the short answer is that the language feature isn’t very practically useful right now, but might be in the future as features are built out/expanded.