A solid 30% of posts in my feed are German memes. I don’t understand the language, but I love the memes that I can’t read.

  • silly goose meekah@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    maybe the community you were trying to post to has some kind of restriction regarding that setting? I’m not sure why someone would do that and whether it’s even possible in the first place but I know the UI is not reporting errors to the users in a lot of places. I also remember playing with that setting a bit and realizing it’s more of a nuisance than actually useful.

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      8 months ago

      My guess at that time is that it was an instance setting or something. That instances have a list of languages it supports. It makes sense given the admins have to be able to read and understand the posts in order to do their job responding to reports and whatnot.

      But then again this was mid-June, there’s a lot of things happening, and I didn’t really explore the issue further, hoping that it’d be fixed eventually (once the more urgent issues got addressed).

      I actually set-up my account to have a shortlist of languages to use (English, my native language, and a few languages I dabble on).

      Come to think of it, I only see the language setting in the desktop/web interface. The mobile app that I am using doesn’t have it.