lisardggy@emilygorcenski I have two accounts right now. One here on the "general" (read: English-speaking) instance, and one on an Israeli/Hebrew-speaking instance. No-one will *prevent* me from writing Hebrew here, but I'm sure many people will see my posts in the local feed and go "Why is he writing this here?". There might be a soft push for "English on main" with other languages confined to localized instances.
@emilygorcenski I think the core issue here is that the Twitter migration is forcing the #fediverse to answer a lot of important questions *fast*. Like "how can I be a part of multiple communities", aligned by language, or topic, or voice, but without creating segregation or balkanization.
Right now Mastodon allows setting language filters on public timelines. I would love to see it in the main home timeline as well, and allow setting it on an individual user that I'm following as well, perhaps even with a "Show/hide/auto-translate" setting per-user per-language. This will make multilingual people feel more comfortable mixing languages freely knowing that their followers have the power to auto-hide "noise" they can't understand, or even have it automatically made accessible.
Ok, now I see that this is actually already supported. Fantastic!
The auto-translate bit would by a nice-to-have. Now I want to be able to be able to filter by other criteria as well.
The auto-translate bit would by a nice-to-have. Now I want to be able to be able to filter by other criteria as well.
morri@lisardggy @emilygorcenski i have most my german on a german acc but restricting languages is qite controlling.