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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
@FediTips unrelated.. But I wish there was a way to follow tags and only show posts in a selected language. Super frustrating.
You're following a hashtag and it's bringing up posts in languages that you have already filtered out?
@FediTips yep. I went through the web app and filtered only English posts - but it doesn't seem to apply to following a tag
@matty_r @FediTips 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.
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.
@FediTips @herzleid 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