Miguel Alvaro claims he endured a horrifying ordeal when he was targeted and physically assaulted by Turkish police solely based on his appearance, being perceived as gay and suspected of planning to participate in the Pride march in Istanbul
I do not know if their instance can allow users to use a different language than English in the "select language" dropdown menu.
I have to use English here, but I haven't checked languages other than French and my native language. I think this is a setting that instance owners can adjust, but I am not sure.
Cool, I didn't know that. In my instance's UI the default is "Undetermined" and I have to constantly be vigilant to manually change it to "English" before posting, so I was surprised someone actually bothered to mislabel their text's language. But maybe it's just a misconfiguration on my end and not something everyone deals with.
I have a lemmy.world account as well and I was pretty much concerned about mislabelling the language my replies before. But upon discovering that I can't choose any language (I listed several in my settings, including "undetermined") other than English, I just gave up thinking about it.
I'm in the same situation, yet I still manually choose the language I post in. Even the comment you've posted now is marked "English". So maybe it assumes it's English by default? Or maybe it performs a rudimentary check on the type of Unicode characters in the post and assumes the language from it?
Oh, I have to manually choose "English" (even if the contents totally aren't). Otherwise, it'd get stuck in some sort of a "submitting" phase where a circle just keeps on spinning and yet nothing happens.