@rperezrosario@mastodon.social
Post #417175
2026-01-14 01:46 UTC
Replies (20)
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@rperezrosario@mastodon.social 2026-02-27 05:19
This applies to the Mastodon official mobile app. The official Mastodon web app has a link ("Translate") that just works regardless of the post's language setting. It shouldn't be too hard to implement post translation this way on the official mobile app.
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-01-14 01:49
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social Note that, by default (at least in Mastodon 4.1), replies will be tagged with the same language as the post being replied to, *not* your default posting language! So be sure to check the language when replying, even if you speak only one language. #Mastodon
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@deborahh@cosocial.ca 2026-01-14 05:35
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social if I just boost, I'd guess the language setting comes from the boosted post? (Do you know?)
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@newstik@social.heise.de 2026-01-14 05:47
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social Unfortunately, there is no "mixed" option.
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@woe2you@beige.party 2026-01-14 06:24
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social And also please hashtag in the same language you're posting in.
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@skewray@mathstodon.xyz 2026-01-14 06:32
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social I just mute everyone who fails to mark correctly. Problem solved!
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@ibrahimtencer@mathstodon.xyz 2026-01-14 18:11
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social or they could just fix the software
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@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org 2026-01-14 19:17
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social one of my two clients does not support that 😿 but on the one which does (this one) I do.
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@LilPecan@mastodon.social 2026-01-14 19:53
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social Yes, please and thank you.
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@isol@mastodon.au 2026-01-14 20:15
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social 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.😢
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@Lucseleventje@toot.community 2026-01-14 21:51
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social 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.
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@svenja@mstdn.games 2026-01-14 22:37
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social 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.
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@SusanneDoering@zirk.us 2026-01-15 06:49
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social Touché. I didn't know that.
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@theresmiling@ibe.social 2026-01-15 12:36
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social I would generally agree. And I think posts like these are always good, because not everyone knows about that feature. However, on some software this may not be an option (yet). E.g. I am on a Sharkey server and I can only set an overall language of my profile, but cannot set the language of an individual post. I would love for that to be possible and I blieve there already exists a ticket for it in their issue tracker. I am very sorry for anyone who would like to read/ easy translate my non-English posts, but at this moment I can't do anything about it. I post this just as something to keep in mind, not as a criticism of this post or you, Rafael. Because as I said, I generally agree.
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@leilia@connexia.hibiol.eu 2026-01-15 15:56
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social Unfortunatelly #Friendica doesn't allow you to set the language per post, only per account. 😔
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@darth_hideout@mas.to 2026-01-15 18:23
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social THANK YOU https://mas.to/@darth_hideout/115600856153595068
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@sunflowerinrain@mastodon.online 2026-01-16 18:40
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social Makes sense, but I don't see an option for setting language in the app I use. It's a fairly basic app. I'll try to remember to post in only one language per toot, though. Hashtags - my French contacts post in French, and the few that add hashtags usually use English for the hashtag. Dunno why.
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@mia@ausglam.space 2026-01-17 10:19
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social also the language filter relies on it, so setting your language helps people who filter by language
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@hgfernan@ursal.zone 2026-01-19 14:33
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social Thanks for reminding us of that. In the Mastodon Web interface the post language is above the Send button, to the left.
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@sunflowerinrain@mastodon.online 2026-02-27 11:59
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social Good point, though I can't conform. I toot in more than one language, sometimes more than one in a toot. I can't find a setting for the language of a toot in my app, but it automatically recognises most* languages of others' toots for translating, even when there are two or more. * Most European as well as some Asian, that is. Doesn't yet cope with e.g. Saintongeais and Cornish.