As to your last question, the language selector (where you’ve selected English in your screenshot) also has an option for “undetermined”. A lot of content is posted here without a language attached, so by deselecting “undetermined” you’ll no longer see that content.

It’s ok though, the language drop-down is a multi-select so you can pick as many languages as you want, just make sure you’ve also got undetermined in there.

A lot of people in this thread are missing the point. Yes, there are explanations to how to use the fediverse but what this individual is lamenting is that it’s so confusing that it took them two days to get to the point of posting for help, whereas on Reddit it would have taken them 10 minutes. The steep learning curve is going to stifle the growth of lemmy.

An argument can be made that those who are unwilling to learn the way that the fediverse works are important because it’s simply a process of “weeding out” individuals to keep the communities great. I would argue that this argument fails to understand the point of the fediverse altogether, that if you don’t like one community there are plenty of others that can be moderated to your particular standards. Also, if individuals are unable to learn Lemmy quickly enough to begin using it, they’ll simply go to one of the corporate-owned social media sites. There needs to be a way for Lemmy to help new users integrate easier, rather than them having to create posts like this asking the community how to simply subscribe to a page they want to browse. Lemmy is amazing and I’ve really enjoyed it and am excited for its prospects, but it’s got a long way to go in terms of user-friendliness before it can truly become what we all want it and know it can be- a viable alternative to corporate-owned social media.