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Stop downvoting foreign languages posts. Just use the language filter. (forum.ayom.media)
submitted 9 months ago by lemming@forum.ayom.media to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Constantly users from lemmy.world and lemm.ee are downvoting posts in languages other than english.

If you do not understand and don't wanna see it just use the filters.

Go to settings and select the languages you know, plus "undetermined". That's it.

people who are seeing this, plese let your instances admins know of this problem and comunicate the instance users.

Thanks

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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Except not everyone has learned english, not everyone can especially older people.

Lemmy has that feature built-in that communities can support arbitrary languages. If you don't want to see them you can literally just pick your languages in your profile, and it'll automatically ignore what you can't read.

A bit weird in practice, but it's intended from the start to be available in everyone's languages without having to make news-de, news-fr, news-es communities or have to rely on regional instances.

If we went with maximizing who can read your post then it should be in Chinese. The assumption that english is the default language for everything is very american.

[–] S410@lemmy.ml -3 points 9 months ago

What about "if the target audience is known to not speak it" part do you not understand?

It's one thing to have your little community in whatever language and post there.

It's another to show up in a very much international community and start posting in whatever random language you want. Or, worse, start replying to comments written in English using your language. Like this guy. Just... How do you even do that? Aren't you supposed to kind of speak English to even understand the content of a comment you're replying to? Why not respond using it, then?

I'm not a native English speaker. My friends aren't either. Yet we all use it for pretty much the same reason. And if you think you can just chime in, go "你的母亲是只仓鼠,你父亲满身接骨木的气味", and be both perfectly understood and not downvoted, you're either a troll or an idiot.