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”
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.