Yes, there are languages other than english on the federated timeline, quel horreur!!. This is a feature, not a bug. Insisting that it is only english is horrible for more reasons than I have space to talk about here.

If you do want to suggest something to get a timeline where you can read all the posts don't be a racist dickbag while you do it.

Example: asking for language tags on toots may actually be useful, saying something about escaping the rice and sushi is fucking terrible

@inmysocks if anyone wants to do something about it, we were arguing about it in this thread.

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/1094

and

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/691

But in both places no contributors are assigned to it yet. If anyone really REALLY wants one, build it! Push it! Merge it!