Frankie SaxxIt's now 'Anglo linguistic privilege & cultural dominance threatened! Attack the French!' O'clock.
Just waiting for 'This is the internet, we speak ENGLISH here, comprende?'
#mastodrama alert; popcorn at the ready
Frying Dutchman@frankiesaxx Well it's kind of frustrating to not be able to understand half of the federated timeline, and almost everyone understands English. I'm not saying everyone should speak English, but it sure makes it easier to understand and connect with everyone
. @Vonk
Many people on the internet speak English, but English speakers asserting cultural dominance and the right to push to the outside & marginalize non-English speakers is not okay.
People should be allowed to speak their own languages. Period. Without being complained about, shamed, or otherwise made to feel bad or as though they don't belong.
The public timelines are a shared space, that means sharing it with people who speak other languages.
. @Vonk and now you can pelt me with herring for all the SJW language in that post LOL
(But I do think linguistic diversity enhances the community, rather than detracts.)
Matt Cropp (now @ social.coop)@frankiesaxx @Vonk my guess is that someone will create a language filter that could be turned on because, at a certain scale, with the diversity of languages, the timeline will turn into more noise than signal for the vast majority of people. #mastodon #TowerOfBabel
I've seen some talk about that. Also an embedded translate option like the bird site has. And if it's well implemented, it solves a problem.
On an instance level, I guess the people who are unhappy sharing space with foreigners can set up their own and ban people who don't use English.
@frankiesaxx @Vonk Thus is a transitional zone right now, where instances membership is defined by capacity rather than shared affinity. My guess is that'll start changing in the next few weeks, especially as people hash out different governance schemes. My axe is with the emerging (first) #platformcoop server... :)
. @mattcropp @Vonk Yeah, I've already seen a few people jumping ship for different instances as they realize there are going to be different kinds of communities on different instances.
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