I feel like this is quasi-related to self-hosted, as it’s an issue I’m facing with my Lemmy instance when it interfaces with the federation. So I apologize if this is too off topic.
I understand the purpose of assigning languages, but can’t help but feel this is poorly implemented in Lemmy.
There seems to me multiple failure-points that can lead to this error:
- Lemmy instance languages don’t match
- Lemmy post and commentor languages don’t match
My understanding may be wrong above, but this is how it feels.
On top of that, the wording around “Undertermined” has been conflicting. The application states that setting undetermined will prevent you from seeing most content, yet people say to avoid the language_not_allowed is just to leave it as undetermined.
The problem is even more annoying since I won’t know if I can’t post without actually writing a comment and hitting post, often just wasting time. Should I start just writing test comments first from now on? Lol
Whether I’m doing things right or wrong, this is already getting pretty convoluted.
Am I the only one having to wrestle with this?
If you’ve not had such a problem and you have your own instance, I am keen to hear what your instance and profile settings are so I can be done with it!
I have had this happen before and as someone who speaks multiple languages I just don’t get why it’s there in the first place. Specially since I had it happen that it gave me the error while I was writing in the language the post was in (in that case it was german)
Yes that’s extremely annoying, I want to see communities and posts for all languages, if I can’t speak that language I just use Google Translate.
Yeah it’s making the platform very complicated.
Yes I have seen this too. It’s been frustrating to me because I haven’t even really known what it means.
Does this happen more when commenting in a post or to a comment from kbin which has stricter language restrictions?
A bug I’d like fixed is when you’re creating a community and you get the endless circle because the community exists but lemmy’s error messaging is subpar.
These will get fixed, I imagine, though the sooner the better so as not to scare new people off.
A workaround I have found was to make my post and if it doesn’t work, copy the text and post again with English selected as the posting language. Annoying, but at least it works until they get this fixed.
