Eugen RochkoLanguage selection is now available in the Mastodon web app. Make sure your posts are seen by people who understand them!
Supports quickly finding the right language with fuzzy search and remembers your most frequently selected languages.
lashman@Gargron that's a great feature, thanks man! :)
hacknorris@lashman it already was for 2 days btw. he told too late ;p
@hacknorris well it was in testing, now it's officially available :P
@lashman i always had for few days at desktop...
@hacknorris hmm, i didn't, weird
@lashman maybe lol...
chrtz@Gargron will it be implemented in the android app as well?
Mackaj
charlotte 🐇@Gargron this is cool :)
JoYo@Gargron i remember you talking about this years ago.
thank you, that cant have been trivial.
thank you, that cant have been trivial.
Dred
Reno@Gargron noice
Sreedev Krishnakumar@Gargron This is wonderful!
Michael 
@Gargron Sehr gut!
felix@Gargron interesting, i am implementing something similar. How does it federate?
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(joking)
Bananabob@Gargron I am still seeing languages other than English when that is the only one selected in the section that says
"Public timelines
Filter languages
When checked, only posts in selected languages will be displayed in public timelines"
"Public timelines
Filter languages
When checked, only posts in selected languages will be displayed in public timelines"
DER | SCHWΛBE@Gargron Will this be available in the Android app anytime soon?
Velocipede Rider@Gargron 🤔 why do I not have this? Running v3.5.2.
Amirmahdi
Karl Voit 
@Gargron I've defined my few languages of choice in my preferences already. (If Masto doesn't filter my timeline as you wrote here, I don't get what for.)
Why not auto-detect and suggest toot language among those preselected langs using stopwords with user override possibility? I detect blog article language between EN and DE using that in my blogging software.
Aral Balkan@publicvoit @Gargron I wish there was a quick link in the interface to translate posts. I find it valuable to follow a diverse group of people (that includes people who speak languages I don’t understand) :)
FF255 🇫🇷 🇪🇺
Justinas Dūdėnas@Gargron nice, thank you!
It could be improved even more. Nobody can write in all the languages, most people can in two or three. So only a few items in this language list are ever relevant to each user.
Maybe language list could use only manually chosen languages? Or it can be pre-filtered using the same language filter we use for reading?
It could be improved even more. Nobody can write in all the languages, most people can in two or three. So only a few items in this language list are ever relevant to each user.
Maybe language list could use only manually chosen languages? Or it can be pre-filtered using the same language filter we use for reading?
Owlet of Minerva@Gargron Doing this explicitly as a courtesy for followers is a capability that I have missed on the birdsite, though the algorithms seem to get it right most of the time. Looking forward to trying it here!
stux⚡️@Gargron And what about a "search on language"? 
@stux What is that supposed to be?
@Gargron Not really sure.. But for example, I would love to find some more ppl from the NL but neither search not the user dir gives some options I think?
I don't want to set my account pref to only English and Dutch for that but do want maybe a lang dropdown on hashtag search results? I dunno..
(since our search is limited to interacted etc)
@stux The explore tab would give you Dutch content if there was any
@Gargron Ah got it! But that's according to my interface language correct? 🤔
@Gargron Ah okay.. Thing is.. 
Since we got Explore im over on English UI lang since we've never had anything Dutch trending 
)posts or links) so it's very sad there
I hope in the future we can also change the iOS app lang :)
@stux One of my next goals is to rework how trends are stored to allow retrieving more than one language, because currently the explore tab is empty if there is no activity in your interface language.
@Gargron That would be awesome!😄
I always post in English but often only see my posts in trending under English Makes sense but also not!
Filling it with other lang trending if none if available in UI lang would be totally okay I guess 
Quantum@stux @Gargron What i find disfunctional in search is that it seems to only search on hashtags. So if i think to be smart in e.g. finding dutch people, i search for a dutch word that is currently in the news. But of course no one talking about it thinks of making the word into a hashtag. We need full text search.
@QuantumAspect @Gargron Well.. there is!
But full-text search works only with YOUR toots and the ones YOU interacted with
@QuantumAspect @stux Yes, search is deliberately nerfed into being only narrowly useful, and I am aware that this is clashing with more and more people's expectations. The explore tab is the main vehicle for finding new content.
@Gargron @stux Ok, i have heard that there is something about Mastodon users not wanting to be found. Why not give them an option "Don't include me in searches"? The reason i try to move this discussion to full text search is that i don't see how people can be forced to reveal their country/language.
@QuantumAspect @stux I understand the frustration.
@Gargron @QuantumAspect This whole UI lang change and browser lang is also resulting in this kinda stuff for me 
