Possibly another approach to my last post, but with wider scope - https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/25640154
Is it possible to share a blocklist of communities based on themes? I would find a non English language list very useful, but as I said in the previous post blocking an instance like *.de or *.nl means interrupting comments by users in an English post. Instance level blocking means people who speak multiple languages (and I am one myself) are hidden from me.
But if this were possible it could also be used to block communities for topics I have no interest in, such as sports or all the software I never use announcing update releases. It makes tuning my feed a chore and I think this would improve the experience for everyone’s tastes.
IMO they should trash the ‘undefined’ option and make it hidden and enabled by default. Then any time you make a post, auto fill the language selection to match what you have selected in your account settings. And don’t allow posts to be made without anything in the language selection, in the same way you can’t post without a title.
That won’t fix all of the past posts that are ‘undefined’ (which is why it’s hidden and enabled by default) but at least it would enforce language selection moving forward.