Hide posts in other languages?

TheLazurus@kbin.social to /kbin meta@kbin.social – 102 points –

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...

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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.

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.

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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.

Es wäre einfacher, Deutsch lesen zu lernen, als Beiträge in anderen Sprachen zu verbergen.

yeah i was gonna try and see if there was a way to filter but then i remembered that i am learning german

Bundan şüpheliyim. Ayrıca, zaten bir dil öğreniyorum. Üç için beynim yok.

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.

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.

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.

I don't disagree. However I spend most of my time in kbin.social/sub where I've already curated most of the groups I care to look at and engage with. I really only venture into /all when I'm kinda bored. Thus, so far, it hasn't really been too terribly problematic to do that.

It would be nice to declare a language whitelist and have a filter for it, but I suspect kbin has some more important things on the To Do list for the moment, and maybe devs will get around to it when they've got a breather. We're likely going to have another influx on the 1st after the alien site kicks app devs in the nuts.

Do these parameters stick? I am under the impression that most of them are reset at some point in some weird fashion.

I've been doing this too, but, why do they show up in the first place if I'm not subscribed to them?

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

Было бы классно если бы добавили фичу из Apollo которая позволяет легко переводить посты/коменты

Yes, I would not foreign languages i don't understand if this feature was available within the platform. But that is probably a tall order considering we are alpha testing here lol

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There is an userscript for it.

For more neat tweaks, see kbinStyles

This seems to be a solution, did anyone test it?

I did, and I discovered it was doing something weird with comments, so I disabled it. I should pop it on again and remind myself what that weird thing was.

Edit: Ah yes, it makes all comments invisible.

Edit edit: Oh, it looks like it only does that when it's also enabled with a collapsible comments userscript I also had running. Since that feature is available in yet a third userscript, I disabled that one, and it's all good.

Edit edit edit: Nope, it still hides all comments. Undo.

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

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.

Just as a quick check: are you sure you are in your "subscribed" view?
KBIN by default uses an "all" view, which you can change at the top right next to your username (the "table" menu).

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.

Embrace the chaos once you realize Mastodon gGmbH is German and Misskey.io is Japanese

Jokes aside...does blocking magazines work? I don't know if this could be a feature incorporated into lemmy/kbin as well

Yes, blocking magazines works. I've blocked quite a few German magazines and the problem went away. (Sorry, Germans!)