I will continue to mainly toot in French.
I see complaints that it "pollutes" the federated timeline.
No it does not. Yes there is a lot of French. I think / hope that we will see more and more languages on the federated, most of them I won't understand AND THAT IS OKAY.
Toot in your own language!
If you want to only read english join an instance that is english-speaking only and look at the local timeline only!
Federated is for everyone. Other languages are not "polluting" it.
@Hiraelle is there a list of instances by language? This is the closest thing I've found (https://goo.gl/ZGxttD), and while there are a couple of instance flagged as being primarily French, there aren't any flagged for any other languages. Many of the instances are just described as "N/A" 🤔
@ChristianD not that I know of, no
I don't know any list better than that for instances either
@ChristianD there's this list https://instances.mastodon.xyz/ which has more instances listed, but no description, you'd have to click on them and look at the rules of each one I guess
@Hiraelle even that only works for some of instances. Octodon.social has no description whatsoever (at least that I could find), meaning that you wouldn't have any idea what the instance was all about until after you'd created your account 😓