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Yeah I just block communities in languages I don't speak. But maybe that doesn't occur to some users.
It's a lot better now that I can block entire instances, but for a while half of my feed was stuff feddit.de and feddit.it no matter how many communities I blocked. I can understand how someone would just start mass downvoting posts that forget to set a language.
Did you try selecting only English and Undetermined in your account settings?
Yep, that was one of the first things I tried to do to fix the issue, as I was getting frustrated with posts I couldn't understand and blocking multiple communities a session. At least now I can just block the whole instance and not worry about it, even if the process is cumbersome.
Sorry to hear. I might go to Feddit.it and ask them to configure their communities properly, you're not the first one raising an issue on their side
I’d like the option to see news / posts from other regions that are made in English, because those do happen. But I too just block whole communities and instances out of convenience