Please make sure you have “undetermined” selected in your list of spoken languages in your lemmy settings in addition to any other languages you speak.
Most lemmy content does not come through with a language tag, and you need to have undermined selected as an option to see that content.
A “gotcha” I just discovered: even though the selector uses radio buttons (which usually means you can only choose one), this is a multi-select list. So if you don’t also choose English (and/or other languages you understand), you’ll miss content that does have a language tag.
Designing UI ain’t easy.
This seems dumb, but I am having the inverse issue on some communities. I can see undetermined languages fine, but English comments or posts aren’t showing up for me even with both selected, any ideas from anyone. I had to have picked something wrong but I’m not sure
is it possible to set multiple languages? i can only select one…
Hold down control while clicking
ohh thx
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I’ve noticed that some posts on other instances don’t seem to be retrieving comments. I’m not sure if it’s related to the language issue, though, as I do have both undetermined and english selected in settings. Or maybe it’s just due to servers being slammed b/c of user influx.
A couple of examples (both coffee because that’s just a current hyperfixation)
- https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/245274 (0 comments)
- https://lemmy.ml/post/1385207 (13 comments)
and
- https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/269138 (0 comments)
- https://lemmy.world/post/386519 (1 comment)
I tried logging out and checking the links on blahaj, same result, and I checked some of the instance lists and it doesn’t seem like a defederation thing.
edit Here’s another one at lemmy.world, in this case I replied to the post and then OP replied back to me. Their original post is visible on blahaj but the reply is not, so presumably it can’t be related to that individual user.
- https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/244963 (1 comment) (Update below)
- https://lemmy.world/post/342451 (2 comments)
edit Okay, so if I take the URL of the comment and search that URL from within blahaj, that makes it appear. Obviously that only helps if I know the comments exists in the first place though.
edit There are also some whole posts that don’t show up without searching the post individually
It’s likely because of instances being slammed along with Lemmy only having, like, a 10 second window where things federate before starting to time out. There are fixes that seem to be in the pipeline but I have no clue when they’ll be released. And if they’ll even fix the problems. And what will happen to all the old un-federated activities afterwards.
Is there any hope for getting old un-federated activities distribuited? This is a major issue on the platform.
That’s goofy, considering that the stock warning tells you you’ll see fewer replies unless you select a language
Undetermined is a language on the list. So you need to pick your languages and undetermined
Yeah, but we can’t possibly think that’s the best we can do in terms of user experience, right? :-)
Not even slightly. Lemmy is not even at version 1 yet, and that’s what it looks like
I really hope this ‘issue’ gets clarified/fixed at a higher level at some point, because it do be a little confusing :)
Yeah. They need to include it by default, but let people turn it off.
They also need to let people choose a default language for their posts so that more of them actually have language tags.
They’ll get there eventually
