Recently, on the francophone lemmy, there was some discussion on downvote, as some posts (on francophone instance, or francophone communities) gets a lot of downvote without a reason.

Yesterday, I had post going up to -5 before going back to 1. It was a belgian newspaper article about new IA regulation in Europe in the francophone news community of LW. I am glad that so many people are interested in European affair and want to votes. But considering that it’s not the kind of topic leading the heated discussion I doubt these downvotes were even about the topic but either some “random downvotes” or “people who haven’t set their language filter properly”

Just curious if some of you experienced similar issues when posting in German/Spanish/Korean/Russian/whatever

  • Björn Tantau
    25•3 months ago

    I don’t see it in the German communities I’m in. Sometimes someone would ask for a translation of a meme or so, but that’s pretty rare.

    I wish the language settings were used more. My app of choice (Voyager) doesn’t even let me select the language when I post. I think if a community had a default language and that were automatically selected when posting and commenting that would be great.

    • @[email protected]English
      19•3 months ago

      I wish the language settings were used more

      That’s the issue

      Lots of non-English communities leave default/English checked. Either accidentally, or to be inclusive because they won’t delete posts in English

      The result is English speakers browsing “all” get a bunch of non-english posts.

      I just block all the foreign language subs like that, but I’m sure some people just downvote when they see them.

      But the overall problem, is theyre not setting their language settings correctly

      • @[email protected]English
        8•3 months ago

        But the overall problem, is theyre not setting their language settings correctly

        Definitely. Both users and mods. If they would, there wouldn’t be any issue.

    • @ZigguratOPEnglish
      6•3 months ago

      By the way, beside ich_iel, which relax, laid back german community shall I follow to not forget the few German I know. All I do at the moment is listening once a month to DW Langsam gesprochene nachricten which isn’t enough to stay fluent.

      • @[email protected]
        18•3 months ago

        If you hope to keep your german up to date, I strongly advise you to stay away from ich_iel. The sub is essentially all about literal and deliberately wrong translation memes.

        Try [email protected], it’s a general news and conversational community, without the forced translation nonsense