PSA: set your community's language to "undetermined" AND English if you want to be able to reply to Mastodon users (endless spinning wheel bug)

EDIT: It needs to be both undetermined and English or you'll prevent lemmy users from replying to posts that have been marked as English

cross-posted from: https://yiffit.net/post/37680

I've noticed that it's sometimes impossible to reply to messages sent by Mastodon users. That is unless you remember to specify your language when sending the comment / reply, which is difficult to realize because it's a tiny field in a row of many buttons.

I just discovered that this problem goes away completely if the community's language is set to undetermined.

Example (won't work):

• Mastodon user replies or creates a new post by mentioning the community
• In community, language is set to English
• Result: lemmy users can't reply unless they select "English" when writing he comment.

Example (will work):

• Mastodon user replies or creates a new post by mentioning the community
• In community, language is set to English
• Result: lemmy users can reply normally.

This is important because it's often better to create posts from Mastodon to improve discoverability and conversation. But it beats the purpose if lemmy users are not able to reply.

If the community language is set to English, lemmy users will be able to reply.

(As far as I know, the language the post is set to does not matter, though).