Dear everyone.

@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 Yes, please and thank you.

@skewray

That's one way to fix it .

@woe2you Interesting, yes.

@rperezrosario

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.

@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.

@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.

@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'

@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.