Dear everyone.
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Note that, by default (at least in Mastodon 4.1), replies will be tagged with the same language as the post being replied to, *not* your default posting language!
So be sure to check the language when replying, even if you speak only one language.
Duly noted. Thanks for the heads up.
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I ixi@mastodon.online shared this topic
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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 works properly.
Many thanks.
Please consider boosting to raise awareness of this issue.
#fediverse #mastodon #language #posting #settings #translation
@rperezrosario if I just boost, I'd guess the language setting comes from the boosted post? (Do you know?)
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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 works properly.
Many thanks.
Please consider boosting to raise awareness of this issue.
#fediverse #mastodon #language #posting #settings #translation
@rperezrosario Unfortunately, there is no "mixed" option.
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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 works properly.
Many thanks.
Please consider boosting to raise awareness of this issue.
#fediverse #mastodon #language #posting #settings #translation
@rperezrosario And also please hashtag in the same language you're posting in.
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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 works properly.
Many thanks.
Please consider boosting to raise awareness of this issue.
#fediverse #mastodon #language #posting #settings #translation
@rperezrosario I just mute everyone who fails to mark correctly. Problem solved!
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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 works properly.
Many thanks.
Please consider boosting to raise awareness of this issue.
#fediverse #mastodon #language #posting #settings #translation
@rperezrosario or they could just fix the software
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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 works properly.
Many thanks.
Please consider boosting to raise awareness of this issue.
#fediverse #mastodon #language #posting #settings #translation
@rperezrosario one of my two clients does not support that
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@rperezrosario Unfortunately, there is no "mixed" option.
@newstik @rperezrosario "mul" - multiple languages
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@rperezrosario or they could just fix the software
@ibrahimtencer That would be ideal. I don't know what the performance hit would be for checking every post on creation for used language automatically. That's at least one additional translator api call per post.
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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 works properly.
Many thanks.
Please consider boosting to raise awareness of this issue.
#fediverse #mastodon #language #posting #settings #translation
@rperezrosario Yes, please and thank you.
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@rperezrosario I just mute everyone who fails to mark correctly. Problem solved!
That's one way to fix it
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@rperezrosario And also please hashtag in the same language you're posting in.
@woe2you Interesting, yes.
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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 works properly.
Many thanks.
Please consider boosting to raise awareness of this issue.
#fediverse #mastodon #language #posting #settings #translation
I can't see why people are willing to type out, for example and from my experience, the Esperanto hashtag, but not set the posting language to match.
Then, instead of Esperanto acting as a common language, the post gets mangled into Esperanto-text-translated-as-if-it-is-Spanish/German/???
I showed this problem multiple times, then just gave up, as posters would argue rather than set the language.
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@woe2you Interesting, yes.
@rperezrosario Keep an eye on the gaming hashtag and you'll see all sorts of languages. Some of them also have the equivalent hashtag in whatever language they're in, but a lot don't.
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@ibrahimtencer That would be ideal. I don't know what the performance hit would be for checking every post on creation for used language automatically. That's at least one additional translator api call per post.
@rperezrosario I don't know either, but you know as well as I do that only a small fraction of users are going to set the language on their posts manually with any regularity.
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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 works properly.
Many thanks.
Please consider boosting to raise awareness of this issue.
#fediverse #mastodon #language #posting #settings #translation
@rperezrosario Also good to know that if you use Mastodon in a web browser, the language picker turns red if it detects you are typing in another language than the default.
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@rperezrosario Also good to know that if you use Mastodon in a web browser, the language picker turns red if it detects you are typing in another language than the default.
@rperezrosario …and also that my app sometimes gets it hilariously wrong, for instance when I type the refrain of Michael Jackson's 'Earth song'
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S svenja@mstdn.games shared this topic
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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 works properly.
Many thanks.
Please consider boosting to raise awareness of this issue.
#fediverse #mastodon #language #posting #settings #translation
@rperezrosario I have set my Mastodon to only see english and german Posts, because I don't understand other Languages good enough. Nevertheless I get a lot other Languages because the Posts Languages are not set correctly there. I hope if I reply it will be set correctly, my Client can't do that itself so if I want to post something in english myself I use the Mastodon Webapp.
