On my very first day on Lemmy, I couldn't see the comments to most posts. Luckily I found an answer to this problem that was posted over 2 years ago: I forgot to select additional languages to just “Undetermined.”

I just skimmed over the texts on the settings page and assumed “undetermined” works like with other social media sites: if I don't select anything, it shows me every language. And as communities are usually formed around a single language, it didn't seem important. This isn't the case with Lemmy. Undetermined is its own language, not a wildcard for all languages.

When users don't know how multiselect works on desktop web, they probably end up with just one language selected and miss every post that has no language set.

It's very strange.