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I feel like Lemmy's interfaces should be doing a better job at this. As in: we [users in general] almost never tag the content of our messages by language; and this should be addressed.
That's likely what's causing those downvotes - some people see content in a language that they don't speak, and downvote it.
May I ask how one would go about doing that? I know it's a feature of the protocol, but it seems to be inaccessible to me on my client of choice (Jerboa). The vanilla web UI seems to have even less feature accessibility
But why would people downvote content in other languages?
I don't know. But if I had to guess it:
Some downvote anything that they get no value from. Some see Lemmy as some sort of Anglo e-Lebensraum, and get pissed that people "dare" to use other languages here. And some are a middle ground, like "I feel entitled to be able to read everything posted here, but I'm a monolingual, so you need to post in English for MY sake! Reeeeee!" style.
Just... again, I'm guessing it. I might be wrong.
Expecting to see content in a language you understand is totally reasonable. Down voting may not be the correct way to handle that, but insulting people who just want to view content they can read is totally uncalled for
I've set up three cases there. I'm mocking the third and denouncing the second, you're talking about the first.
Because a lot of people are British and American