@Gaypow theres some stuff in my mentions about how new articles complelty erase queer mastodon in the article, and it was like that in the first place

im just so fucking tired

@thefishcrow oh i see so its not a thing with people on the platform rather outsiders talking about the platform?

@Gaypow from my perspective its the same shit, but i was reminded of it

and not im angry

@Gaypow like a year ago when stuff was written, both queer mastodon and also the spanish and french waves were forgotten

im also still pissed with the language filter

@thefishcrow language filter?

@Gaypow https://cybre.space/media/_uvIolr7UnJVeIZGV7Q

@thefishcrow thats weird why would someone need that? i mean i guess i see that IDK i like seeing french on my timeline

IDK IM DUMB

@Gaypow its useful, im just....upset that????? cishet white techbro asked for this "accessibility" feature and it was pushed through before a few other features

im just tired of being ignored and seeing folks int he same community being ignored

@thefishcrow ah i see now that makes sense

@thefishcrow @Gaypow It got to the point where I couldn't use the local or federated timelines. I wish I spoke enough languages to not need that filter, but I don't, and my brain won't commit any attempts to memory. Not a cishet bro.

@Gaypow @thefishcrow also how does it even work? Language detection is HARD and even Twitter gets it wrong a lot

Articles about mastodon are always like “neat idea but how will they monetize it?! No VC will ever fund a platform like this!” or techbros complaining about mastodon working as intended (giving a voice to people who aren’t them).

@fluffy i dont know since im not actually a programmer!

@thefishcrow I wonder if it just assumes things based on the locale of the instance, which is just plain wrong.

But yeah I guess it’s so hard to be an American who gets reminded there are non-English speakers on the Internet.

@fluffy @thefishcrow it uses he dropdown in that picture above the filter to determine your language.

@Fuego @thefishcrow oh good thing nobody’s bilingual

@fluffy @thefishcrow
I'm not an American, and English is not my native language, but sometimes I want to follow someone who posts in eg. French and English. I can't read French, but find that person's English posts interesting. Unfortunately, following them would mean my timeline gets flooded with posts in a language I don't understand, which makes it harder to find the posts that I can understand. A working lang filter, perhaps with options to tag language when posting, would be helpful IMO.

@Gaypow @thefishcrow The decision to use it to remove languages you don’t want to see instead of phrasing it as “only show me languages I know how to read” angers me. Not to mention easing your server performance on Tensorflow or some shit

@Gaypow @thefishcrow back when I arrived in April so many people were pissed to see French in their timelines that it intimidated me into tooting almost exclusively in English

@Siphonay I remember that time period- I’m sorry D:

I remember how unsafe and loud and rude folks were being about a French wave

And it’s these waves the pushed for the language filter

I’m glad it helps some folks but it’s origins are rude

@Gyro tech queer is queer

except computers

im not sure if there is a difference

@nicole yes good good