UPDATE: Tom has now added the Undetermined language option to our instance. To make sure you can see the majority of Lemmy content from within your feddit.uk account, do the following:

Click your profile name - click settings - scroll down to the Languages box (not interface language) - hold down Ctrl (cmd on Mac) and select both English and Undetermined. On mobile browser: Tap the Languages box and make sure both are selected - scroll down and click save

You can also select any other languages which are beneficial to you.

If you don’t see everything listed in the box, try refreshing the page.

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When viewing profile settings, you will see a box which says:

Warning: If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content.

On feddit.uk we currently have no selectable language option other than English. This means that (sometimes?) we will not see a lot of posts / comments on other instances / communities where the OP did not specifically select English before posting

See also: This Lemmy documentation under ‘Setting up your profile’

• Languages: Select the languages that you speak to see only content in these languages. This is a new feature and many posts don’t specify a language yet, so be sure to select “Undetermined” to see them.

Ideally, we need the ability to select English (or whatever language) AND undetermined - you can select multiple, as long as they are available.

When I view X community@instance from my lemmy.world account (with Undetermined language selected in profile settings), I can see all posts and comments. When I view the same community@instance from my feddit.uk account, there are missing posts and often 0 comments on everything. This needs addressing if possible!

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    1 year ago

    I’m glad it’s worked out for you but since it’s mentioned in the documentation by Lemmy and it’s literally written on the settings page, it seems to me like it’s something that needs looking into.

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      Agreed, I only want to see English content anyway though.

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        1 year ago

        I totally understand what you’re saying but ‘Undetermined’ does not equal Not English. There are many posts and comments written in English that we might not be seeing (hence my post) because English was not selected by the OP. ‘Undetermined’ is the default when posting, unless you manually select something else.

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          Fair point, hadn’t thought of that.