Just signed up to this instance and it was the same issue at lemmy.world too which was probably 1/2 a year ago or more. After signing up you have to go to your settings and choose in the Languages section all the languages you wish to see or else they won't show up (like any posts & comments in english would be invisible to me as a new user if not selected in the settings)
What is the current experience for a new account?
If the language issue wasn't there it wouldn't honestly be much different from reddit. Even better in some cases, no ads and power harassment. The only thing missing is a dedicated wiki section.