Most common cause is people changing their language settings in their profile. It’s a daily occurrence. The app really needs to tell people “25 messages not displayed because you are only viewing in Spanish”.

cool. I’m in the camp that the feature causes more problems than is useful. Entirely hiding posts of another language would not be my choice, it should at least say “there are 5 comments you do not see because of your language preferences”.

it does show the comments on incognito

That means it is tied to your login, something is set in your preferences so that you aren’t seeing content.

Picking “undetermined” isn’t the same as having never touched it. There is a steady stream of people who accidentally touch the language settings and say they don’t see anything.

People have called out how confusing the whole thing is: https://lemmy.world/post/523012

Sorry I can’t be specific on how to click and what works, I just know you aren’t the first to get their account where it stops showing routine content.

Without more details, it’s hard to know what you are describing. Do you mean comments from other people on posts you make? or your own comments?

I assume you are talking about the main webapp, lemmy-ui, and not a smartphone app or other front-end? The first thing to try is anonymous reading of the same post - are the comments there for incognito mode?

I’ts not uncommon for people on Lemmy to set their languages to something odd and and Lemmy will hide a lot of content.

This year has been dramatic. I’ve seen a big increase of users with quality content doing deletes in protest of Reddit. And the shift to sites like Lemmy that are not as favored by search engines.

Reddit should have gone the other direction, become a non-profit, eliminate advertising, go back to open sourcing the code like they used to, and run on donations. Cut their staff of people that had anything to do with advertising and trying to market the platform.

I haven’t seen a feature for that yet, maybe I missed it? If indeed it is absent, I suggest !lemmywishlist@lemmy.ml - posting this

Lemmy federation, server to server, is having a number of problems. Comments and postings aren’t always getting copied over to all the servers who have subscribers. For over a week, Lemmy.ml has had regular nginx 500 error codes on the front page, sometimes you have to refresh 3 or 4 times to get a page to load.

Growing pains.

When subscribing to communities it occasionally says “Subscribe Pending”

Your specific issue is documented and I opened a fresh issue on it today: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3203

The interesting thing about Snowden to me after 10 years is how few times I see the public think about how low-level staff with hardware-level access can bypass all command and control decisions. He was a contractor who just wholesale scooped data off the servers. Nearly 10 years later… Jack Teixeira leaks documents because he has server access to documents outside his immediate need too.

I think a lot of organizations really don’t see how vulnerable they are to deliberate attacks and theft - if the NSA can’t protect their data 10 years ago, do you really think your mobile phone network provider or these VPN companies are not subject to internal staff selling off data, etc?