Question: I sometimes see posts in PD communities that are not in English (most recently in Flutter community). Is there a reason for allowing languages other than English? It definitely doesn’t make moderation easier. Or maybe is there a technical reason for that (like Mastodon posts doesn’t necessarily specify language and will fall under undetermined)?

  • AtegonMAEnglish
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    1 year ago

    In the settings all languages are allowed due to issues with language federation from mastodon and kbin. Its up to the mods what languages they allow. (Majority will be English but allows for some communities that are two if theres some technology where official info is given in another language or for things like c/programming but in another language (naturally hidden from people who don’t have that set as their language))

    I deleted that german post since its just a stream ad

    • canpolatOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Thanks for the response. It sucks to not have language being set in some implementations of ActivityPub. I think separating the write language settings from the read language settings would help a bit to set the corrent language when writing, at least. But I suspect that needs to be fixed in the core Lemmy (not instance specific).