Rafael Pérez 🌱Jan 14

Dear everyone.

If you post in more than one language, please remember to set the language of your post correctly. It's the only way the language translator on the official mobile app works properly.

Many thanks.

Please consider boosting to raise awareness of this issue.

#fediverse #mastodon #language #posting #settings #translation #mobile

Show threadRafael Pérez 🌱
This applies to the Mastodon official mobile app. The official Mastodon web app has a link ("Translate") that just works regardless of the post's language setting. It shouldn't be too hard to implement post translation this way on the official mobile app.
Feb 27 at 5:19amMastodon for Android
Show threadFelicitas Pojtinger 🌅Feb 27
@rperezrosario I wish the UI just automatically switched it over when it is confident enough it's not English instead of just warning ...
Show threadRafael Pérez 🌱Feb 27
@pojntfx That would be great.
Show threadTim JFeb 28
@rperezrosario However, the link only appears if the language set for the post isn't your own. So if someone has accidentally set their post to your language but written in their own, there'll be no Translate link. So the language setting still matters.