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Do you use Mastodon's web interface? Do you get frustrated when viewing a thread with content warnings because you have to open lots of CWs individually?

There is a solution to this problem: just click the eye 👁️ icon in the top right corner to toggle all the thread's CWs open or closed. (If it doesn't seem to work, click again. It's a toggle switch!)

More info and questions answered about this feature at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/what-does-the-eye-icon-%f0%9f%91%81%ef%b8%8f-mean-on-mastodon

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matty_r
unrelated.. But I wish there was a way to follow tags and only show posts in a selected language. Super frustrating.
Fedi.Tips
You're following a hashtag and it's bringing up posts in languages that you have already filtered out?
matty_r
yep. I went through the web app and filtered only English posts - but it doesn't seem to apply to following a tag
Herzleid
It's because A LOT of people don't know they can/should change their post language. The default is English, and most people don't seem to realise it can be changed to whatever they're posting in. In the web interface the button below the text area, next to the post privacy level, is very obvious but I think a lot of apps hide this in Settings, which (surprisingly) most people never look at very closely.
Fedi.Tips
Yeah, this may be what's going on. You can check this by replying to one of the posts (but don't actually publish the reply). Your unsent reply will show the language code of the post you're replying to.

There used to be an automated language detection system, but very short posts or replies apparently caused problems as very short pieces of text can be difficult to reliably trace to one language.
matty_r
that might be part of it for sure. But some of them even come up with an option to translate it - so it knows its not English.

I did some searching and looks like there are some related issues which might be the cause. For example: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/25701

Feature Request: Hashtags Filter · Issue #25701 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch Currently, Mastodon hastags are global across the Fediverse. When they are sorted by usage to create the trending list, the hashtags of the most commonly used languages throughout the system ...
GitHub
Fedi.Tips
It's a good point, I've given the issue a thumbs up.
Cavyherd
Oh, this is useful! Thank you! (No if I can just remember it....)
bazkie, fluff girl
oh my god!! they should improve the UI so that people actually discover this naturally 🤣 (but thanks for the tip!)
TEI
I didn't know that! Really helpful. Thank you!
david_chisnall
I just set it to auto-expand content warnings. The CWs usually match hashtags that I’ve explicitly subscribed to, so it’s a weird UI thing to say ‘at, you want to see things like this, I will hide the, for you, but only sometimes when the poster remembers’. Not tying CWs to hashtags was one of the biggest mistakes in the Mastodon design.
William B Peckham
I am very sorry, but while I LOVE the Fediverse I really HATE the web interfaces. Seriously!
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