I only speak English, and I virtually always only want to see English-language material, though ideally it'd be nice to still be able to follow links to articles in other languages.
As it stands, I see both German-language and English-language threads intermingled on https://kbin.social/ .
For a while, I just downvoted any German-language material that showed up, but then noticed that it was on German-language instances that were federated. Okay, so downvoting isn't the right solution, since the goal is to provide input as to what I'd like to see, not affect what German-speaking users see. It looks like one can block magazines from showing up -- in the right-hand sidebar, there's a block_magazine button, a crossed-out circle. But then one has to block every magazine on every federated server that might use a non-English language, which is going to be pretty unpleasant, since it means that every user has to do work linear in the number of magazines that exist both on kbin.social and on federated servers. Someone adds a Czech-language magazine or whatever, threads on it will presumably be showing up for me.
I know that language information must be associated with a comment's metadata and an article's metadata, because when I post an article or comment on a thread, I'm allowed to input the language that I'm using. I'd assume that it's technically-viable to filter based on that.
Is there any feature in kbin today that lets me just choose what language I'd like to see content in across federated instances? My ideal would be to not block material if I really want to go there and use Google Translate or the like to read it, but for it not to show up by default.
I agree that this would also be a useful feature! No hate for German but I don’t speak it and would prefer not to see it in my feed.