 I've seen people hide their non-english posts on fedi with CWs for some reason and it boggles my mind 🥴 Why do they do it? Don't be ashamed of your language. Fedi is not an English-exclusive space. It's a place for all cultures and languages. Many instances have translation APIs for a reason. 31 comments
@endali Does any non-Mastodon software have the language feature yet? I guess it'd make sense if there's no way to filter out languages you don't speak and your instance doesn't support translation  @endali because some people tend to get mad when non-English languages are used on fedi  @endali@tech.lgbt I sometimes do it because there is another topic attached to it, like politics. Not because I want to hide the language but to tell in advance this might be a tiring/difficult topic.  @endali I sometimes do this and it has nothing to do with shame. If I post in Polish (which happens rarely), it is usually targetted at Polish-speaking folks and virtually useless to everybody else. Of course, if you're one of my non-Polish friends you're welcome to translate my posts. But once you do, you may learn I'm complaining about something related to our country, politics or anything else hyper-local you may not be interested in. CW at least reclaims some space in your feed.  @agturcz @endali 2. I often get lost in Mastodon preferences section while trying to find a setting I'd like to configure. For this exact reason I have strong suspicion many people may not know language filtering is even an option.  @endali i just don't feel good living in my country as its one of main topics to make memes and joke about. Tbh - i solved it easier - i have few alts over few instances where its my only account in english and the rest is totally from my country where i never use english… @endali I sometimes do this as a joke but also I don't trust the translation to be accurate or I don''t think the post would make sense at all without The Cultural Context so I just say "hey hey, don't waste your time buddy"
 @endali i haven't seen that before, I just see English posts and non CWed posts from other languages   @endali Not only do many instances offer translation, but there is also the „language“ setting for every post @janDeni@toki.social @endali@tech.lgbt Unfortunately, that seems to be a mastodon-only feature. It seems misskey/firefish don't let you mark the language of a post or let you follow posts in a given language. @endali I agree, they shouldn't have to hide. You may have missed it, but there was a whole issue a week or so ago about certain instances limiting language usage to English only. There was even a troll who admitted he reports everything, including french and spanish phrases like "c'est la vie" and "buenos dias" that English speakers generally understand. It came out that it wasn't because they can't find anyone who will moderate in other languages, they just don't want to. @endali very likely because they have been shamed for their other language enough times. @endali it happens because other users complained about it. no one comes here with built in fedi compliance behaviors |
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@endali meanwhile there's a language selector (and posts can be filtered by language too), but no one uses it