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I don't have anything against either furries or sex workers being there, just that between this and half of the public feed being in languages other than Englis
by seemslegit 7y ago
I don't have anything against either furries or sex workers being there, just that between this and half of the public feed being in languages other than English the "what is this all about ?" experience is rather deterring.
Two basic things they could do is add some categorization and have users opt-in to topics for their public feed and limit the posts shown to English plus the languages that can be deduced from the user-agent data - it is after all one of the few legitimate purposes it can be used for.
- kick 7y agoWhy not just find people you like on it first and then use it? Joining a social network you know nobody on seems weird. Also, the Public Timeline is your local instance's. My local instance has no users that speak different languages than I do, so the timeline is without content I don't understand. The Whole Known Network goes way too fast to be of use, but it too is mostly filled with English speakers (albeit mostly non-desirable sorts).
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- yborg 7y agoMastodon client can filter on language. Hashtags are a thing, most clients can search/filter on them. The pond is tiny, so certain non-mainstream communities that were driven out of other "real" platforms (i.e. platforms that are trying to sell you something) are a much higher percentage of the feed. But it's more or less just like Twitter, loudmouths tend to dominate, and 95% of the feed is garbage. Instance homing is really the biggest problem Fedi has right now, instances are hard to characterize without camping them for some time, they're mostly small hence the loudmouth problem, and stability is an issue, they still come and go frequently. One of the problems with anarchy is that it's hard to manage.