Language 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.

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@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 @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

@stux @Gargron Unfortunately that does not help much for my use case. I don't find new people with that.
@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.
@Gargron @stux And apart from the country/language issue, full text search helps finding people discussing interesting subjects they don't make into a hashtag. Really, full text search would solve or dampen many issues popping up currently.