You also set the list in your profile Settings menu, so it’s not this humongous list of all possible languages but just those that you choose to show.
You’re talking about this list, right?
There’s an equivalent one in Lemmy:
However both are for the content you see, not for the content you create. I just think having some way to “pin” a few convenient languages would be great. PieFed’s “last used is the one you’re expected to use” strategy works fine for 1 language, but for 2+ it still means digging through a huge list.
PieFed offers both a last-used facilitation andalso a smaller list of only the options that you actually use on a daily basis (or at least what you had enabled at the time when you click to view the smaller list, regardless of what you’ve used in the past).
e.g. I now have a single language in the comment listing. In order to do my earlier test in Español I had to go into my Settings and enable that option in the large list, which changed the small list to have just those 2 choices: English and Español. When I began to make the comment in Español, the English option was of course the preselected one until I switched it to post the comment, so the real test was the follow-up second one, when I saw that not English and instead the last-used Español was preselected at that time.
Afterwards I removed Español (using the larger list in Settings) so that my smaller list has just the one language in it again. Which makes the entire per-comment UI element somewhat useless for me, sobre todo porque puedo hablar en cualquier idioma, pero aun así mantenerlo etiquetado como inglés. Vel alius. Ou un autre. Oder ein anderes.
Overall, I enjoy this approach - it seems ideal for someone who switches between a handful of languages, even though tbf that’s not what I do myself.
Rust is stable but difficult to work in. The political propaganda not merely tolerated but actively pushed forward by its flagship instance, and things like the Lemmy instance picker “randomly” choosing either Lemmy.ml or hexbear.net literally (if roughly) 90% of the time, and the political rules never anywhere being stated explicitly on lemmy.ml, etc. have led people to greatly reduce or altogether stop funding for Lemmy.
At the same time the Lemmy devs are attacking PieFed, e.g. by running AI to identify vulnerabilities and then rather than offer even so much as 24 hrs notice go ahead and publicly disclose them (yes they “can” do so, but is it “friendly” to have chosen that route?). Also people report from looking at the Lemmy codebase that even though it is written in Rust it is still buggy, e.g. so much so that the underlying database must be constantly rebooting due to memory leakages. Tbf similar arguments if less substantiated claims have been made against PieFed as well. It is for this reason that in 2026 slrpnk.net will switch to PieFed, as quokk.au already did, even while others moved forward more hesitantly, opening up a PieFed alternative even while retaining their older Lemmy instance.
The fact that in Lemmy moderator reports have not federated all this time since the Rexodus (although FINALLY will in the upcoming v1.0 release), shows that the concerns of the more “global” audience for Lemmy are of far lesser consideration - and this is presuming the maximum good-faith assumptions of their programming capabilities.
I have lost virtually all faith that the Fediverse will ever grow much beyond its current state, but what faith I still have leftover I place solidly into the hands of PieFed as the best hope to move forward. We will see, I suppose.
![The selector is, like, right there. [Spanish] [German] [French] [Italian] [English]](https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/235eade7-7f50-4acc-8d1d-efce34919f89.webp){kind=link}
You’re talking about this list, right?
There’s an equivalent one in Lemmy:
However both are for the content you see, not for the content you create. I just think having some way to “pin” a few convenient languages would be great. PieFed’s “last used is the one you’re expected to use” strategy works fine for 1 language, but for 2+ it still means digging through a huge list.
PieFed offers both a last-used facilitation and also a smaller list of only the options that you actually use on a daily basis (or at least what you had enabled at the time when you click to view the smaller list, regardless of what you’ve used in the past).
e.g. I now have a single language in the comment listing. In order to do my earlier test in Español I had to go into my Settings and enable that option in the large list, which changed the small list to have just those 2 choices: English and Español. When I began to make the comment in Español, the English option was of course the preselected one until I switched it to post the comment, so the real test was the follow-up second one, when I saw that not English and instead the last-used Español was preselected at that time.
Afterwards I removed Español (using the larger list in Settings) so that my smaller list has just the one language in it again. Which makes the entire per-comment UI element somewhat useless for me, sobre todo porque puedo hablar en cualquier idioma, pero aun así mantenerlo etiquetado como inglés. Vel alius. Ou un autre. Oder ein anderes.
Overall, I enjoy this approach - it seems ideal for someone who switches between a handful of languages, even though tbf that’s not what I do myself.
Ah, got it! It’s a sensible approach. Lemmy AFAIK doesn’t do anything similar; it should.
I doubt it ever will, but yes.
Rust is stable but difficult to work in. The political propaganda not merely tolerated but actively pushed forward by its flagship instance, and things like the Lemmy instance picker “randomly” choosing either Lemmy.ml or hexbear.net literally (if roughly) 90% of the time, and the political rules never anywhere being stated explicitly on lemmy.ml, etc. have led people to greatly reduce or altogether stop funding for Lemmy.
At the same time the Lemmy devs are attacking PieFed, e.g. by running AI to identify vulnerabilities and then rather than offer even so much as 24 hrs notice go ahead and publicly disclose them (yes they “can” do so, but is it “friendly” to have chosen that route?). Also people report from looking at the Lemmy codebase that even though it is written in Rust it is still buggy, e.g. so much so that the underlying database must be constantly rebooting due to memory leakages. Tbf similar arguments if less substantiated claims have been made against PieFed as well. It is for this reason that in 2026 slrpnk.net will switch to PieFed, as quokk.au already did, even while others moved forward more hesitantly, opening up a PieFed alternative even while retaining their older Lemmy instance.
The fact that in Lemmy moderator reports have not federated all this time since the Rexodus (although FINALLY will in the upcoming v1.0 release), shows that the concerns of the more “global” audience for Lemmy are of far lesser consideration - and this is presuming the maximum good-faith assumptions of their programming capabilities.
I have lost virtually all faith that the Fediverse will ever grow much beyond its current state, but what faith I still have leftover I place solidly into the hands of PieFed as the best hope to move forward. We will see, I suppose.