Note that, with some other french speaker we’ve done a couple of experiences with language tags. Some instances ignore the c/ default language https://sh.itjust.works/post/16306134 so even if the community is properly set some languages aren’t set automatically.
Moreover some /c/ may want to be multi-lingual and then users need to set language by hand no matter what
-5 on a 400 subscribed community where it’s rare to see posts above +5 is significant, the francophone lemmy is still quite small. Not clear whether it’s why the downvotes are visible compared to bigger language, or whether there is people downvoting stuff on all which aren’t in english
Subscribed, danke
In general I try to so. that said even if I fail to do so, why would you follow a community in a language you don’t know.
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.
The trick is that the fedi, has already better tools than reddit/Xitter. We can already flag the language and filter by language, which is feature reddit still doesn’t have. So it’s also about people using it rather than blocking/downvoting