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!

  • INeedMana@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wait, so instance admins can limit the languages? So someone from another country, on feddit.uk instance, can’t select their native language and see the comments?

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      Yep. This is essentially where I’m at. Can’t see content on the feddit.dk instance because I can’t select Danish. Everything has zero comments.

      For now, the solution might be to make a user on feddit.dk as more users in there probably want content in English than the other way around, but it’s still iffy.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know how it works, honestly. I just noticed that a lot of the time I can’t see posts / comments on external instances because of this Undetermined language issue and I think it needs figuring out by Tom so I made the post. I realise that this instance is only a few days old so it takes time to set up!

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        1 year ago

        Just to make sure: this is not because of your settings in your profile? You can’t select “undetermined” there?

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          No, that’s the whole point of this post. At present, with an account on feddit.uk we can only select English, there is no other option, not even Undetermined.

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            @tom@feddit.uk bringing this to your attention, I think Juniper is right with their points on this. Might be causing this instance issues with posting and commenting on other instances

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              Yeh thanks this may be an issue on my side. Commented higher up but I’ve changed the language settings on the instance to undetermined and English!