Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of posts in German in the All feed. I love that there’s communities on Lemmy that aren’t in English. I wish there were some available in my second language. However, I can’t read or understand German and seeing posts in German regularly is starting to get a bit annoying.
Is there a setting available anywhere, that I’ve missed, to filter by language? Or, will I be best just blocking these communities as they come up in the feed?
Yes, but only if the language has been declared. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell not a single post originating from feddit.org’s many communities declare the language to be German.
The good news is that Voyager (and Lemmy itself) supports blocking a whole instance: In Voyager tap Settings -> Filters and Blocks -> Blocked Instances -> (add feddit.org)
Blocking it this way means you will not have to block each community one-by-one.
Fortunately, this kind of block simply hides all posts and communities from the blocked instance. You can still see federated comments from their users as long as they are declared to be in a language you have selected in your profile settings (probably you have English and Undetermined selected)
There are communities on feddit.org that are configured to tag all the posts as German. It’s a community based setting, so feel free to politely reach out if a community hasn’t done so
Edit: I just checked, ironically only !europe@feddit.org automatically tags in English
@BurningTurtle@feddit.org FYI