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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

Stephen Greenham

@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 :(

Anders Eknert

@feditips seems like very few of the mobile clients (that I’ve tried) support setting the language. I’d love for this to work.

k8quinn

@feditips The language filter doesn't work for me. Even though I have my filter set for English only, I still see a lot of posts in Asian (CJK+) languages on both the local (Vivaldi.social) and federated timelines. 😞

Jerry Lerman

@feditips Hi Fedi.Tips. Regarding, "There's also a built-in automatic translation system on some servers (depending on whether your admin has switched it on)."

Is this in the standard 4.1.0 Mastodon release? I cannot find this option?

gavinisdie :troll:

@feditips but does it support Galactic basic? (I hate writing its cursive form)

Tormod Halvorsen

@feditips @chris

Hey, thanks! I was wondering about this. Language filters enabled!

Erik “Lacraia” Magnusson

@feditips Has there emerged a standard for dealing with posting in multiple languages? If I want to write my message in multiple languages, do I put them in the same toot or do I respond to myself.