Solely because I can’t read anything but English, I keep blocking foreign language communities as its just noise for me. But I have selected Undefined/English as my languages in settings.
It seems the language choice is never used by communities and posts? All of the .de instance posts seem to be “undefined” language. If they selected a specific language which matches their post language, it wouldn’t show up on my feed, right?
And currently there isn’t a way to block whole instances as a user, as far as I understand.
Will I have to just continuously hide foreign language communities as a user?
I’m not suggesting defederating or anything like that, just making my own feed less “noisy”
I’m doing the same on Kbin (also with sports communities) and I don’t see a language preference anywhere.
Perhaps it’s a future thing for auto-translation? (not likely to be helpful with images/video, though)
kbin doesn’t have the language filter Lemmy has, but it has the same language selector when posting, so on both systems, many posts should be tagged with the correct language, but on kbin you cannot yet do much with it.
There’s a language selector at the bottom of the page, is that just for UI?
I was not aware of that, but apparently yes, because a) It does change the UI language. b) It does not filter posts or comments in other languages. c) It only allows ou to select a single language. For the Lemmy filter, you are able to select multiple languages, plus there is an option for “undetermined” that allows you to still see those posts where the language is not known.