Title. The language of a post or comment is never displayed, nor can it be defined when writing posts or comments.
This leads to posts/comments with the language set to “undetermined” which leads to them appearing to users that didn’t select the actual language.
Edit: Additionally some communities seem to have started disallowing “undetermined” as a post/comment language, leading to Jerboa users being unable to post/comment. I’ve encountered !foodporn@lemmy.world so far.
Tbh I feel like the language attribute is poorly implemented in lemmy, or at least in the client interfaces I’ve used. Why is it necessary at all?
It’s not absolutely necessary, but I think it makes sense. It allows users to select which language posts they want to see, but that requires the language to be set correctly. Alternatively they can block these communities altogether, which feels heavy-handed. I agree it’s poorly implemented and there’s an open issue where I made a suggestion how to set reasonable default values.
