Is there any way to hide posts in other languages? My homepage is filled with German posts, which would be great if I spoke German…

  • alerternate@kbin.social
    51·
    1 year ago

    Maybe a different approach would be a way to specify which languages you are able to read. There are plenty of users who are multilingual might want to see posts in several languages.

      • alerternate@kbin.social
        4·
        1 year ago

        I just meant that “Hide other languages” is different than “Show me these languages” - the former is potentially read as “only show me ‘my current language’”

        I didn’t mean to imply they were shitting on German, more that the German users probably also read English and would want to see both.

          • Square Singer@feddit.de
            1·
            1 year ago

            While that wouldn’t exactly be a nice way to word it, monolingual designers designing for monolingual use cases is a huge issue that crops up a lot.

            For example, you used to be able to right click a text input field in Chrome and directly select the language for the spell checker. Then they changed it and said, multilingual people should just select all the languages they speak, and the spell checker will just allow every word as correct that appears in at least one language.

            That’s a horrible solution, because you frequently have similar words in multiple languages spelled differently, so that the word in a different language just masks a typo. For example, compare grass (English) to Gras (German). If I am typing a German sentence and accidentally type it with two s, the spell checker will not flag it.

            Anyone who frequently uses multiple languages would instantly know that that’s bad design, but apparently the person who designed this doesn’t speak multiple languages.

            As far as I can remember, there was a shitstorm and they reverted the change. It’s been a long time since I used Chrome.

            • assbutt@kbin.social
              1·
              1 year ago

              No disagreement here, I have a lot of gripes with the state of UX design. I don’t understand why the majority of my 1440p screen is empty space when browsing the web, to give an easy example. One of my displays is vertical, which seems incredibly useful until you try to use it and realize nothing scales in any usable manner on a portrait display. I digress…

      • vinzen@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        I mean, there’s like thousands of languages out there and usually you’re only going to know a handful of them. From an experience standpoint I’d rather just check the ones I want to see rather than check all the others.

    • BananaTrifleViolin@kbin.social
      9·
      1 year ago

      I think the problem is that on some/?all instances the default language is set to either undefined or English. I’ve noticed its undefined on lemmy that I have used, while on Kbin it’s set to the language I set to read - English. So if people don’t change the language they will be posting undefined text or in English inadvertently.

      My account is set to show undefined and English posts only but I’m seeing a lot of German content.

    • funkyb@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Sure, but shouldn’t we also need to subscribe to communities/mags from these instances? I know i see lots from .de domains in my feed, but I am not subscribed to any of the communities/mags on the instances those posts originate from.

      • static@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        In your settings you can change the default home page from All to Subscriptions.