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

submitted 1 year 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 1 year ago

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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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] 4 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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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