I feel like this is quasi-related to self-hosted, as it’s an issue I’m facing with my Lemmy instance when it interfaces with the federation. So I apologize if this is too off topic.

I understand the purpose of assigning languages, but can’t help but feel this is poorly implemented in Lemmy.

There seems to me multiple failure-points that can lead to this error:

• Lemmy instance languages don’t match
• Lemmy post and commentor languages don’t match

My understanding may be wrong above, but this is how it feels.

On top of that, the wording around “Undertermined” has been conflicting. The application states that setting undetermined will prevent you from seeing most content, yet people say to avoid the language_not_allowed is just to leave it as undetermined.

The problem is even more annoying since I won’t know if I can’t post without actually writing a comment and hitting post, often just wasting time. Should I start just writing test comments first from now on? Lol

Whether I’m doing things right or wrong, this is already getting pretty convoluted.

Am I the only one having to wrestle with this?

If you’ve not had such a problem and you have your own instance, I am keen to hear what your instance and profile settings are so I can be done with it!