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Ayo, is there a way I can filter posts by language on Lemmy or sth? (lemmy.today)

submitted 2 months ago by lemmyknow@lemmy.today to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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Honestly, I'd miss plenty of content, and some of it great, too. But I can't take opening this damn app anymore and being blasted with US everywhere, even in unrelated communities. I honestly feel sometimes like I should just quit Lemmy, or at least take a long break. But idk what to do in the bathroom lol

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

User,. settings, languages.

Do read the warning though.

[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait… what kind of warning!? What are the risks? I’m to afraid to check myself now lol

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

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

For some reason Lemmy doesn't select a default language when you post or comment, so most is simply "undetermined".

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

Just checked that out, and it's something indeed I recall trying long ago. But it keeps on reselecting "Undetermined" for some reason whenever I save

[–] Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've been really aggressively blocking communities that have stuff I don't want to see. It's been a huge help

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

That helps, but sometimes the community is more general and the content I don't want shows up anyway. E.g. I've created an account soon as I saw US News & Politics show up, seeing the opportunity to block it. Yet the more general World News frequently has US-specific stuff (fair, I guess, seeing as the US is part of the world, despite them labelling anything not them as "World", e.g. "World Music"). Or US news and politics showing up in Lemmy Shitposts. I enjoy some shitposting. But why???? Can't get a break. At least filtering out English would free me from so much US

[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Just switch accounts with me. I get like 90 percent posts in German and I have know idea why.

I’m also a pretty fast skim reader so I’ll be halfway through the article before my brain alerts me it’s in a language I don’t understand. It’s very frustrating .