@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