jaz  Apr 29, 2022

@madarch to restrict which languages show up in your feeds, did you check https://toot.wales/settings/preferences/other (not interface language - different setting)

2nd, all will show up in Local regardless, to avoid this Mute the users posting in languages you don't speak.

3rd, make sure you're not following aryiris

let me know if this helps

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Show threadMaja Abramski-Kronenberg ☮Apr 29, 2022

@jaz @madarch
When writing a tŵt, how do you mark what language it is? Is it done automagically using some AI method?

I, and many other multinlingual users, tŵt in several languages.

Show threadjaz  Apr 29, 2022

@rwmpelstilzchen @madarch

this has been an ongoing thorny issue, several solutions have been thrown at the problem and development continues.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/17639

For now the language has to be set manually each time ( https://toot.wales/settings/preferences/other ), but there are numerous efforts to improve this functionality.

Reference:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/17073

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/3478

How does language detection work? · mastodon mastodon · Discussion #17639

Hi! I was wondering how the language detection in Mastodon works. In the preferences I can set my ‘posting language’ to ‘Automatically detect language’. How (well) does this actually work? Especial...

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Show threadMaja Abramski-Kronenberg ☮Apr 29, 2022

@jaz @madarch

:-(
This manually changing the settings before each tŵt is impractical.

Show threadjaz  Apr 29, 2022
@rwmpelstilzchen @madarch the previous auto function for this was a no-go, replacement is being worked on. Comments and feedback are helpful here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/17073
Per-toot language · Issue #17073 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch I propose that the language can be specified for individual toots. By default, the language is whatever you specified in your profile as your "toot language" but you can choose to select a di...

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Show threadFrancis BApr 29, 2022
@jaz @rwmpelstilzchen i know this is slightly missing the point of this thread, but on an explicitly bilingual instance like this, i would just set my toot language to whichever of English or Welsh i would be likely to use more often, and that is fine. No need to change it for every toot.
As a user, i expect to see both English and Welsh here, and understand it's not possible to completely filter out either one. I would understand and accept seeing Cornish, for example, occasionally here too...
Show threadFrancis B
@jaz @rwmpelstilzchen ...but if someone is ~100% using a completely other language, not natively spoken in Wales, i would expect them to set their language pref accordingly here.
But i am not the owner/admin, I'm just giving my view.
Apr 29, 2022 at 1:29pmWeb
Show threadjaz  Apr 29, 2022
@madarch @rwmpelstilzchen I will take a look to see what we can do to encourage more people to choose their primary post language in their settings.
Show threadFrancis BApr 29, 2022
@jaz @rwmpelstilzchen thanks - i for one would appreciate that