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   ww (ww@xyzzy.link)'s status on Friday, 12-Jun-2026 00:06:29 JST ww
   i've been trying to use post language tags correctly but honestly the whole fedi ecosystem goes against it and it's also against the way humans talk and i think the real problem is mastodon and the fact that it trusts those stupid tags. it should detect the language instead. and its autotranslate feature should allow the user to translate anything into anything, with auto -> ui language being the default, but overridable setting.
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     Cat Poníčková (poni@ak.kawen.space)'s status on Friday, 12-Jun-2026 00:06:28 JST Cat Poníčková

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     @ww if you speak more than language so you can’t just set it for once, it just is not going to work? Also plenty of my posts are in two or three languages
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     narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag: (hj@shigusegubu.club)'s status on Friday, 12-Jun-2026 00:23:52 JST narcolepsy and alcoholism :flag:

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     • Cat Poníčková
     @ww @poni kagi has browser extension for translate that integrates nicely at least with pleromafe
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     ww (ww@xyzzy.link)'s status on Friday, 12-Jun-2026 00:23:53 JST ww

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     • Cat Poníčková
     @poni mastodon will show a translate button only if the language doesn't match yours, there doesn't seem to be an option to manually call the translate 😭
     
     but okay it does seem to autodetect the language in case the tag is wrong. but if you want a translate button to show up for everyone except for the people that speak czech, you have to specify czech. also i'm not sure if it's used for filtering posts on the federated timeline?
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     Cat Poníčková (poni@ak.kawen.space)'s status on Friday, 12-Jun-2026 00:23:54 JST Cat Poníčková

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     @ww akkoma at least on kawen space has a dropdown, but it’s… I mean it’s doable, but what even is the value, if you can speak Czech, you will recognise it, if you can’t, there’s not a lot of value of knowing that blerb is in Czech?
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     ww (ww@xyzzy.link)'s status on Friday, 12-Jun-2026 00:23:55 JST ww

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     • Cat Poníčková
     @poni yeah you have to change it each time you switch to another language, but like it's really hard in both akkoma fe and phanpy, i wish i could manually set the list of language displayed in the dropdown in the compose box
     
     and yeah idk what about multilanguage posts
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 12-Jun-2026 08:12:08 JST Blurry Moon

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     • Cat Poníčková
     @hj @poni @ww supposedly it works with Mastodon too