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What do I fill into the Language dropdown when creating posts? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So theres a warning "Warning: If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content." which doesnt make sense to me when creating a post.

So, do I fill in english or do I leave it as undetermined/Select Language?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd like to know too. And also if it's important we set it, is there a way to make it default to English?

Maybe during signup it should nudge users to set their language preferences.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It might be an instance-dependent or user-setting-dependent thing, but I've noticed that my responses default to English.

For the time being, I've set my language preferences to these languages:

Undetermined
Esperanto

If my hunch is correct, my instance will detect that I haven't selected a language for this reply and set it to English.

Edit: It didn't. 😅

Edit 2: I'm stupid. The OP is talking about post creation, and not reply creation. My bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If my hunch is correct, my instance will detect that I haven’t selected a language for this reply and set it to English.

Edit: It didn’t. 😅

I also noticed the comments here have no language assigned. I spent quite some time in comment sections where each comment was labelled 'English'. After a while I stopped carefully labelling mine as 'English' manually, and nothing changed. Seems to auto-label. So I was confused that here they don't.

I'll label mine manually just for the test.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think that that warning was only supposed to show up in the profile settings

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

That's what I think too. The widget probably got reused, and then later they added that warning but it ended up showing in both places.

I think you're supposed to choose the languages your used in the post.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Agreed, that warning message is confusing. Also I don't understand why we should have to select a language at all, since if I'm posting in an English community it should be implied that my post is in English.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I've been leaving it as undetermined due to the bizarre warning, but maybe I don't understand it right.

[–] plum 1 points 2 years ago

Oh shoot. I’m glad you posted this as I just made a post and completely misinterpreted the message - I selected “English.” Hopefully that won’t filter it from too many users!

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