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  • no surprises@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    My problem with hashtags is that I’m getting posts in all languages. I don’t want to translate each manually, we can’t have a proper discussion either. It seems to be the only place, where filtering by language doesn’t work.

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      1 year ago

      Some instances have built in auto translation these days, works quite well in my experience.

      But if language filtering works everywhere except when following hashtags that sounds like a bug and you should probably see if there is an issue for it on the Mastodon bugtracker, and if not make one.

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        I haven’t seen any with auto translation. I have seen ones with a translation feature but, presumably to conserve resources, it only does it after you click the button, which makes it most pointless, in my opinion.

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      Honestly the language problem is a huge one. Probably 50% of my feed I can’t even read. There are language filters so that you can set the language of your post but people do not use them. I joined an English-only instance but recently they were accused of being racists so they rolled that rule back.