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I do whenever I post from the web interface, but Jerboa is not so accommodating.
I used Jerboa for all of 5 minutes before I couldn’t stand it. Web interface in mobile browser is infinitely greater than Jerboa lol
I feel the opposite. I know it lacks features but the interface is so good everything else feels like rubbing aquarium charcoal across my gums.
No it isn’t, not in my client app :/
The selector is there, at least in Lemmy’s default web interface… but it’s a pain to use.
I think Lemmy should let you configure one language as default, and as many languages as you want for quick access. Then if you don’t mess with the “select language” menu, your posts/comment get your default language. And if you do need to mess with that menu, you’ll have an easier time finding the language you want, like this:
(Replace the languages in the “quick access” list with the ones you want.)
“Undetermined” should only appear if the user actively unselected the other languages.
Note by my example you should be allowed to tag a post/comment with 2+ languages. The OP is a prime example of that, sometimes content shows multiple languages at once and there’s nothing wrong with it.
Also note this should be separated from the configuration of which languages you’re willing to see, that already exists. Being able to read some stuff in a language is definitively not the same as being able to write with it.
My web UI (Firefox, Android) always defaults to English, even though it also offers to let me change it on each and every comment individually.
I feel like people get tired of those of us who constantly say that PieFed offers SIGNIFICANTLY more features than Lemmy does, or will ever do, but OTOH…
Based on other comments it defaults to the last language used, right? (It has been some time since I used PieFed.)
People make a whole ruckus because of the political views of the individual devs (from both sides), and also because of Rust vs. Python, but at the end of the day I like how PieFed adds new things to the table. Every new piece of software brings a different vision, different “I can’t stand this papercut issue so I’m fixing it”, and with it a bunch of new features.
Although… for the Python vs. Rust thing, I get Rust might perform better but I kind of expect people to be more likely to contribute with a Python project.
Test two
Yes it defaults to the last one used.
You also set the list in your profile Settings menu, so it’s not this humongous list of all possible languages but just those that you choose to show.
And “undetermined” is not one of the options that shows on outgoing messages.
You’re talking about this list, right?
There’s an equivalent one in Lemmy:
However both are for the content you *see*, not for the content you *create*. I just think having some way to “pin” a few convenient languages would be great. PieFed’s “last used is the one you’re expected to use” strategy works fine for 1 language, but for 2+ it still means digging through a huge list.
PieFed offers both a last-used facilitation and also a smaller list of only the options that you actually use on a daily basis (or at least what you had enabled at the time when you click to view the smaller list, regardless of what you’ve used in the past).
e.g. I now have a single language in the comment listing. In order to do my earlier test in Español I had to go into my Settings and enable that option in the large list, which changed the small list to have just those 2 choices: English and Español. When I began to make the comment in Español, the English option was of course the preselected one until I switched it to post the comment, so the real test was the follow-up second one, when I saw that not English and instead the last-used Español was preselected at that time.
Afterwards I removed Español (using the larger list in Settings) so that my smaller list has just the one language in it again. Which makes the entire per-comment UI element somewhat useless for me, sobre todo porque puedo hablar en cualquier idioma, pero aun así mantenerlo etiquetado como inglés. Vel alius. Ou un autre. Oder ein anderes.
Overall, I enjoy this approach - it seems ideal for someone who switches between a handful of languages, even though tbf that’s not what I do myself.
Ah, got it! It’s a sensible approach. Lemmy AFAIK doesn’t do anything similar; it should.
prueba uno
I was just thinking about this recently, should be a setting during account setup that sets a default so far less is undetermined language.
This. Expecting me to select from the drop-down on every single comment even though 99% of what I post is in the same language just isn’t realistic.
Yeah, if I could set a default I would.
I think Piefed automatically goes with the language you last chose.
I guess this is a Lemmy problem? The Piefed UI defaults to English for me, not “undefined” or whatever Lemmy defaults to.
Hmm, maybe. I only recognize other platforms if they have the platform in their domain (piefed.example.com, etc) so I can’t really say.
Hehe, this is yet another thing that PieFed offers, e.g. https://piefed.social/instance/startrek.website says about StarTrek.website that “This is a lemmy instance.”
Most times I try to do that, the post simply doesn’t go. I have to leave it without a selection for the post to work. Might’ve been a problem with my instance? Always using browser
Does it do something now? Didn’t used to.
cries in daily-driving neither Lemmy nor Mastodon