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The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android
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Automatically Set Content Language Based On User Location #4485

Open xtianpu opened 4 months ago

xtianpu commented 4 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Yes, most new users feels lost when the first things they are to see weren't in their language (Discover feed)

Describe the solution you'd like

App can estimate geolocation of the user

Describe alternatives you've considered

nothing

qazmlp commented 4 months ago

I think this is the case already, though if I'm not mistaken it's based on locale detection (which is more reliable).

However, the system also always selects English too, which tends to overwhelm every other language due to post amount and the number of English-speaking users.

qazmlp commented 4 months ago

It would be nice to have language-specific discovery feeds 🤔 I could use that too, since I would like to check what's trending locally just as much as I like to see global trends.

(I turned off the language filter completely, but in practice I see a non-English post less than once a day.)