Post AT48m0Kf0i2dinINBw by teachpaperless@mastodon.nu
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 (DIR) Post #AT2wSa2Z95OW4JqLRI by feditips@mstdn.social
       2023-02-25T18:31:37Z
       
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       Mastodon supports 96 different languages and dialects.You can choose your interface language, filter your timelines by language, and say which languages you post in. There's also a built-in automatic translation system on some servers (depending on whether your admin has switched it on).It's important to set your posting language as this is what allows the language filters and automatic translation systems to work.You can find out how to do all these things at:➡️ https://fedi.tips/setting-your-language-preferences-on-mastodon-and-filtering-out-posts-in-other-languages
       
 (DIR) Post #AT2wsWI5i1G5y7TRsu by solarisfire@mast.solarisfire.com
       2023-02-25T18:36:15Z
       
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       @feditips I wish as a mod on a server where I have translation turned on I could manually change some people's post language... It's infuriating when someone has their post that is in another language, marked as English, and then I can't translate it :(
       
 (DIR) Post #AT2wsWqpcr31hrjC2C by MrClon@lor.sh
       2023-02-25T18:42:50Z
       
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       @solarisfire i wish post language selector was more convenient (and may be had some auto-detection). I post in two languages and sometime (most of the time) forget to set correct post language@feditips
       
 (DIR) Post #AT2x5z95jrCbE0gYHg by solarisfire@mast.solarisfire.com
       2023-02-25T18:45:26Z
       
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       @MrClon @feditips I don't think it could be placed any more conveniently on the web client, but in some other third-party clients, it's pretty much non-existent. Auto-detection would be perfect. I wonder if it would be possible to run something periodically server side that looks through the statuses table, guesses the language of the status, and then updates the language column :/
       
 (DIR) Post #AT369zrVuqQmC1S25I by brawaru@mstdn.social
       2023-02-25T20:10:32Z
       
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       @solarisfire mastodon used to have auto-detection, but it was pretty inaccurate, so it was removed in favour of manual language selection.Personally I think a mix of both definitely would be good: language gets detected as you type and if it's not correct then you can override it. But I don't think there's a way to ship language detection to client easily.Good thing you can change the language while editing the post.@MrClon @feditips
       
 (DIR) Post #AT36A0Opux5NrN2e1Y by MrClon@lor.sh
       2023-02-25T20:26:50Z
       
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       @brawaru @solarisfire @feditips i suspect language detection can work good if algorithm know set of languages that user can use. e.g. user select japanese and english as his language, so autodetection will not assume that post written in chinese
       
 (DIR) Post #AT48m0Kf0i2dinINBw by teachpaperless@mastodon.nu
       2023-02-26T08:30:14Z
       
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       @MrClon @solarisfire @feditips I agree!