Enfors
Damn, the federated timeline is mostly a Japanese spam-o-rama. Nothing wrong with Japanese per se (I'm trying off and on to learn it), but it's just not what I want to see. Makes me wish Mastodon had a language filter setting that I could set to only show posts in languages that I can read.
Apr 26, 2017 at 2:36pmWeb
Show threadBrianApr 26, 2017
@Enfors yes, I feel the same way! Would love to interact with others but it's next to impossible when I don't speak the language.
Show threadCelestine Chua✅Apr 26, 2017
@Enfors Hopefully as more users use Mastodon, there can be more useful features to make it a meaningful experience for each individual user, while maintaining the decentralized aspect (without big daddy dictating all the rules and changing the landscape to fit shareholder's goals rather than user's goals)
Show threadGarrett W.Apr 26, 2017
@celes @Enfors Hey I just had an idea. Mastodon could add some sort of setting/API call that would allow instance admins to set a default language and optionally federate only with other instances of the same language if they want.
Show threadCelestine Chua✅Apr 26, 2017
@garrettw @Enfors But it seems like each instance has many users posting in other languages though (the instances don't seem to be segregated by language). So not sure if it will be effective.
Show threadGarrett W.Apr 26, 2017
@celes @Enfors so then maybe the solution is to allow users to set languages for their profile so that their feed is limited to posts by other users who are set to those languages, while still allowing them to look up any user's account.
Show threadCelestine Chua✅Apr 26, 2017
@garrettw @Enfors Yes, that'd be really great I think. @ken What do you think? And who can we forward such a suggestion to?
Show threadEnforsApr 26, 2017
@ken @garrettw @celes I would guess there's feature requests for that on file already, but I don't know.
Show threadKenApr 26, 2017

@Enfors @celes @garrettw yes this has been discussed since a month ago. This is preview of what might be coming up - https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/2361

This is more on the technical discussion - https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/691

For developers, normally they'll search GitHub for duplicated issues before raising new one. For rest of users, I believe @maloki is the single point of contact for feedback (kindly correct me if otherwise!)

Show threadmalokiApr 26, 2017
@ken @Enfors @celes @garrettw I don't want to be a single point, but for right now, kinda yeah.
Delegation is required!!
Show threadmalokiApr 26, 2017
@celes @garrettw @Enfors @ken Depending on your browser you can translate the entire page btw. I's kinda funky with japanese, but almost perfect with French :)
Show threadMx TurumoreApr 27, 2017
@Enfors I remember the flow of Mastodon being more balanced before the local instances really kicked off in various countries, and now the Federated timeline is very busy, even for someone who does speak Japanese. I'm looking forward to future enhancements in this regard, but in the meanwhile I'll be sticking to my Local timeline.
Show threadEnforsApr 27, 2017
@turumore Aparently, there is code for a language filter that's being worked on. Hopefully, it'll be included in the release version of Mastodon eventually.
Show threadMx TurumoreApr 27, 2017
@Enfors Yeah, I saw the discussion related to that. Looking forward to it.