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Do moderators see posts and comments in every language or only in the ones they selected? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 week ago by Stefan_S_from_H@discuss.tchncs.de to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I was thinking about my post “Should I set the language when I post something?” (Is this the right way to link to a post?) again.

Does the way language gets used on Lemmy imply that a moderator would need to select all languages in the settings to prevent them from overlooking some content?

And wouldn't this be very annoying if the same account gets used for non-moderation usage?

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[–] Stefan_S_from_H@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Translation costs either money or user data. Probably a political issue.

Personally, I still can't understand why Lemmy needs to deal with post and comment languages anyway. It's a reasonable feature for microblogging. But when you start sorting content into groups (aka boards, communities, etc.), you don't really need to mix different languages to discuss one specific topic.

Netnews and Bulletin Board Systems had language- and location-specific communities. Everyone participating in one of these communities/groups/boards was writing in the same language.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

When you view the global post listing from all communities, it shouldnt display posts in languages that you dont speak. Similarly it shouldnt be possible to make a post in Danish or Polish in a German community. With Lemmy 1.0 there will be automatic language detection available so you wont have to specify it manually for each comment. And translations could be implemented using Libretranslate (selfhosted).