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Hi, So I've encountered this problem for quite a while now: I am not able to see new or old posts on communities on this instance. For example: BuyItForLife Solarpunk memes (works for some extend?) Solarpunk I am a user of this instance and reading on the Thunder Client. Is there any solution already in place for such a problem? Thanks :)

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[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Ok I took interest and want to help you so I got into this, downloaded thunder and did some testing and my conclusion is that your issue is related to the lemmy/fediverse post/comment language settings. The hoodie post is the latest post on BIFL that is not tagged as english post.

Ill elaborate in a sec once I can reproduce your issue on thunder.

Edit 1: in the following screenshot from BIFL from the lemmy web UI you can see that the hoodie post is the only one with "undetermined" language setting:

The posts you don't see are set explicitly to "english". By default posts should be "undetermined" but communities/instances can change defaults.

I can't fully remember the confusing logic of these content language settings, but ill report back once I play around with thunder for a sec.

Edit 2: I can now confirm that I was able to reproduce your issue and that it is indeed what thunder calls "Discussion language".

Go to your account settings in thunder > Discussion language > make sure you have "undetermined" and also "english". You should add other languages which you want to see.

I know. I hate how this works as well, but that has always been an annoying part of lemmy and fediverse :( you are probably not seeing any posts / comments that have a language set. Most of lemmy content is either undetermined or english though, so adding english should fix it for you.

Hope this works out!

[–] toebhi@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That worked amazing! Thank you so much for your research and help! I didnt know that option was a thing.

Thank you so much and have a nice rest of your week :))

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yay!! No problem at all, glad to help :) and I bet quite a lot of people have struggled with that setting (including me the first time I made a lemmy account).

Thank you, you too!! :)

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That should really be pinned in account setup somewhere. This was a warning I saw when I first joined, so it was fresh in my mind when I started here, and it looks like it's still causing difficulties, although it had slipped by the time I came across this.

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

I agree. It can completely ruin your first experience in the fediverse. I wanted to see finnish discussion when I first joined but couldn't see posts/comments at all in those comms.