Wow. So fosstodon instance actually enforced an English language only policy. Wtf. They are kicking someone off for using Irish. What bat shit crazy fucked up colonial anglocentric bollocks is that.
Am amazed. That someone would even think about such a policy in the first place. Yikes. That someone else would go so far as to flag posts for it. That's up there with the instances that enforce a single topic. Wtf.
Am really appreciative of the good instance admin of v.st.
@quixoticgeek It's about being able to moderate. Obviously.
@edavies most other instances seem to cope just fine...
@edavies @quixoticgeek Machine translation exists, so that’s a figleaf, not an actual excuse.
@quixoticgeek That mean they cannot start a conversation in any other language or they cannot answer in any other language ?
Both seem unacceptable to me, but the former is furthermore ridiculously not applicable to any person whose english is not the mother tongue.
@johan the former. Replying to someone in a different language is ok. A stand alone toot in a different language. Not ok
@quixoticgeek Ok, will try to understand the technicality here...
As the reason seems to be moderation, it would mean that there is a difference in moderation when you publish a "stand alone toot" or a reply ?
The responsibility of the moderation is for the instance where the thread was initiated ?
I do not know if you have any knowledge on this, but I'm trying to understand how they could think it was ok. Even being in this "moderation über alles" kind of vibe it seems that it cannot work.
@johan yeah. It makes no sense to me
Yeah that one has always made me pause for a moment. But if the admin and the majority of their users don’t speak X, how can they realistically moderate posts written in X?
@gadgetoid Google translate. Make friends with polyglots. Get more admins?
@quixoticgeek ah maybe we could ask Google to add Irish to English translation 🙃
It’s a very yikes and broadly not worthy of defending policy, but at least they’re showing their whole arse up front and not wasting anyone’s time,
Still looking for an instance that better suits me 😬
@gadgetoid if all else fails. Spin up your own instance. But I can relate to the idea of finding an instance to call home.
@quixoticgeek I have my own for my blog, but I think it would collapse if I tried to use it generally 🤣
Great source of fully alt-tagged image embeds though!
@quixoticgeek aha! They've repealed the policy.
Now I just need to be able to shitpost and I'm home 😆
Before writing this I did check with the instance admin if there was any language rules. "we do not have a language policy and allow both Perl and Python users"