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 multilingual is a practical approach to the federated feed, but do not paint the debate as black and white.
I imagine this is rather figuratively like the Tower of Bable and all it takes is a Rosetta Stone to help us understand each other. Many have suggested integrating a translate feature, which could either be a function on the toot or configured through user settings.
Let us not divide our instances by demographics, but embrace unity through understanding.
@mrm785 I don't paint the debate as black and white, I'm reacting to the people that say "get the french off here" and "it pollutes the federated timeline"
and yes a translate feature sounds like a great thing to have
@mrm785 yes thankfully.
I don't feel attacked or anything (just to be clear :) ), but it's kinda rude of them to say that, so I felt like tooting what I thought about it.
@Hiraelle I can appreciate that and would rather you draw attention to it than allow it to run rampant. Etiquette for mastodon isn't well established yet, so civility could help set the standard for behavior.
@Hiraelle I am sorry people have been so troubled by their ignorance of French. As with the internet as a whole, you can either find common ground, troll, or ignore.
Fortunately, trolling has been minimal from what I have seen.