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Dear Fellow Anglophones,
People are allowed to speak their own language in public. We do not own the internet.
I repeat:
WE DO NOT OWN THE INTERNET.
Sheesh!
Dear Francophones (and other non-anglophones)
I'd say "feel free to carry on" but you don't need my permission.
I am sorry people are jerks though.
@Shutsumon I keep seeing toots to this affect, and I'm almost afraid to ask what braindead drama made people feel they were necessary.
At the same time...morbid curiosity persists.
@Shutsumon As an addendum, I'll note that the only issue I've had with non-English posts, personally, is that I had to use Stylish to strongarm Mastodon into using a more UTF-8 robust font in chromium on Gentoo, which was pretty annoying. Before that, many characters not in the ASCII set for English language were not rendering correctly.
I'll file a bug if/when I figure out whether this was a Mastodon problem or a chromium one.