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Eugen Rochko

For some reason Google thinks that Mastodon for Android is a language learning app..?

Screenshot of Mastodon's Play Store listing, where under "Similar apps", "Russian Made Easy" is listed among "Learn languages", "Learn Spanish and English" and so on. There is also an "EVA System Monitor", which seems to be a Neon Genesis Evangelion reference.
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Herr Brainf Ücker

@Gargron russian language. I wonder if anyone needs it. 😄

Herr Brainf Ücker

@Gargron nope. I know russian for all of my life, and it doesn't gives me any advantages. And never did.

Eugen Rochko

@brainfucker It's very expressive and you can access some very good literature in its original form

Herr Brainf Ücker

@Gargron which literature written in russian is actually could be called "good"? As for me, 90% of so-called "russian" literature is depressive novels with a plenty of empty words. I know what I say: I used to be an editor-in-chief in Ukrainian publishing house before the russian-Ukrainian war started. That's my position, of course, but anyway...

Eugen Rochko

@brainfucker I think you're going a bit scorched earth because of Putin's war. I don't think there's a need to involve the language and the literature that predates that despot by centuries.

Eugen Rochko

@brainfucker Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita is one of my favourite books. I'm also a fan of the works of Daniil Kharms.

Григорий Клюшников

Herr Brainf Ücker, the fact that some bad people use something — a language, a tool, a technology — for bad things, doesn't make it bad. Every terrorist drank water. Doesn't mean that drinking water is bad.

Herr Brainf Ücker

@grishka I understand that, but this question is far more complicated in Ukrainian case. Check out our history, especially in the part of forcing Ukrainians to use russian in different centuries.

Dana Lee

@Gargron , that's The GOOGLE Monster for you. 👹

flutergork🌻️🇨🇦️ 🇺🇦

@Gargron Maybe that's what Google search told them. 🤦‍♂️
What I see here (Canada) is the Play Store calling it what it actually is. At least, it does for the app called Mastodon.

Eugen Rochko

@flutergork What do you mean, calling it what it is?

flutergork🌻️🇨🇦️ 🇺🇦

@Gargron Calling it a social media app, not a language learning thing.

Phil Rukin

@Gargron same for me. curious if it's worldwide or just in Germany.

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@Gargron turns out google is 1000 years behind @Mastodon 😂

infinite love ⴳ

@Gargron weird, you'd think they would correctly classify it like all the other fedi apps, as a dating app

David Blue ※

@Gargron honestly, in many ways, it is? I say we pitch these services against the experience of browsing an un-language-filtered feed for a month and see what happens.

<DΛNΙΞL>

@Gargron What? 😱 Isn't Mastodon an app to learn languages? I have lived cheated all my life. 🤣

wilkie (quilt appreciator)

@Gargron I have learned a lot of language here. like "awoo" and alternative definitions of "toot" :blobcatcoffee:

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@Gargron Today I learned there is a Mastodon for Android app.

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