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…
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.
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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.
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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.
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…
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.
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.
We’re working with alfa and beta software.
Ideally the mods could set the default language on the magazine/community, there are a few english communities on feddit.de
And with prefs you could select to hide certain languages.That’s not my experience, I don’t have kbin in english, but the comments are still automatically set to english. I can’t set them to undefined either (*cry in emoji).
It would be pretty cool if it would detect it automatically by default.
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.
In your settings you can change the default home page from All to Subscriptions.
Es wäre einfacher, Deutsch lesen zu lernen, als Beiträge in anderen Sprachen zu verbergen.
There is an userscript for it.
For more neat tweaks, see kbinStyles
This seems to be a solution, did anyone test it?
I’ve been using it on desktop and it works perfectly
i have found it entertaining that every third post or so is auf deutsch,
Big ask but I’d love a translate button. Even shitty translations are OK. Sometimes content in other languages is of interest and I struggle through as best I can.
Technisch sollte das möglich sein. Soweit ich weiß existiert die Funktion, aber nicht auf kbin. Ich meine das konnte man nicht mal auf reddit machen
It makes sense to fix it, I suppose. It wouldn’t really make sense to just downvote it every time it comes up, that wouldn’t be fair.
It’s kind of funny to me, I was part of the French meme-magazine on the old “orange reading site” and german meirl would get referenced occasionally. Now I get to see that magazine (ich_iel) most of the time I log in, even if I don’t fully understand it, and the ones I understand are pretty good.
PS: this really throws a spotlight on how anglocentric /r/all was
I’d much rather pose a challenge…can developers in our community find a way to incorporate a translation tool to Kbin or Lemmy.
I’m interested in knowing what those German memes are all about!
Say what you will about Meta, but one of the few things I always appreciated about Facebook was the translate button on the comments. I could keep up with my Danish, Belgian or Brazilian friends and know what was going on with their life.
I’m not saying: Use a Meta API to translate, though. It’d defeat the purpose of the Fediverse.
You can go to that magazine, and over on the right side you can click the block button. It should be right next to Subscribe. I’ve done this for a lot of communities that are in languages I cannot read.
Yes, but it’s annoying playing whack-a-mole especially adding in the sports team magazines. And if they do add auto-translate in the future it’s gonna be annoying to un-block all of them, though images likely will still be an issue.
Also note that blocked magazines can still show up in the sidebar.
This plus duplicated content/communities/discussion (where there actually isn’t a different perspective) really makes me think that the idea of how these sites are structured is flawed.
This is what I’ve been doing as well. Lots of German for me too, but this has made a difference just blocking a few magazines.
Yeah I’ve only blocked like 3 or 4 magazines total and I have almost no German posts in my feed anymore. It was pretty easy
Same here too. The big one was ich_iel clogged up a lot of space with German posts and then a couple smaller ones and I rarely see any now.
I get it, but isn’t it amazing that the Germans embraced the fediverse!
They rule when the US is asleep.
Edit, solution for OP: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/113150/-/comment/449092
I don’t think all the english ones are necessarily from britian and canada and such.
Shure, but at 12:00 CET time it’s mostly German, towards the evening it gets back to English.
True, the Aussies have been making a good show of it.
