hello, I am curious as to why I occasionally get the language_not_allowed error when posting to certain sub’s. its in English, and it wasn’t offensive or not-allowed. (I promise!) I’m still trying to figure out the federated system so maybe I’m doing something wrong for all I know. Are others getting this error?

Thanks for your help.

  • Cracks_InTheWalls
    4·
    2 years ago

    It’s an error related to the language selections in your settings. Ran into the exact same thing.

    I changed mine to include Undefined and unselected anything but English (for now), seems to have resolved the issue on my end.

    Seems like just a weird bug.

    • Dandroid@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’m on Lemmy.world, but I can’t seem to select multiple languages unless I use shift-click, but that gets all the ones between them. That could easily just be a Lemmy.world issue, though.

  • sexy_peach@feddit.deEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Hi you need to click on your user name and then settings and then activate undefined, english and all other languages that you want to see. Either undefined or english isn’t activated for you and this means that you’re posting in the wrong language.

    Or you have already done this and just need to choose an appropriate language for the post.

    • ohellidkOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      can this be done using jerboa? I’m on mobile.

      • OverfedRaccoon 🦝@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        You can log in on your browser on mobile and change it real quick. I just checked mine and it was deselected with a big message about it causing issues. So I selected it and hit Save. 😂

      • sexy_peach@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        hey I just checked for you, it doesn’t seem like this setting is available in jerboa. You’ll have to log in in a browser (mobile is okay as well), and go to settings there.

  • Bernie Ecclestoned
    3·
    2 years ago

    When you create a community, you set the allowed languages. If you don’t select any of the languages, it says it may cause problems, maybe this is it?

    I’m also new, so just figuring it out. Hopefully someone with more knowledge can correct me.

    On Reddit, a well used way to get the correct answer was to post an incorrect one ;)

    • ohellidkOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      true that! I’ll have to try setting my language, didn’t think it was required. thanks.

    • yaphy@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’ve tried specifying a language but it refuses to post. Just infinite loading. What could that be about?

      • Bernie Ecclestoned
        2·
        2 years ago

        I’d guess servers are falling over with a lot more requests than normal following spez’s klutzing

  • GaryPonderosa@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    I recall seeing something about an issue with apps and an instance setting Language_Not_Specified. If the person running the instance unchecks that box it makes things go pear-shaped with some apps. I think.