I meant in general. If I don't want to see anything in language X but I don't mind seeing all the other languages and I don't even have a preference about them, that's all I would like to have to toggle.
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What’s the use case? I’m curious why one would want to hide a specific language but show another, even when they don’t understand either language? Isn’t that just promoting the arbitrary discrimination of certain demographic based on which language they speak?
I think there’s a use case for wanting to see only languages that you know. But favoring certain languages over others for reasons other than understanding the content seems odd to me. Genuinely just trying to understand.
On the contrary, I sometimes like to not see English content, for the sake of variety and because I am a glottomaniac who loves languages.
So, in my case it would be the exact opposite of what you may have thought!
For the record, I am a minority-language speaker myself and I am used to getting lots of hate from majority-language speakers just for existing and daring use my language in public. So I would see this feature precisely as a means to enhance minority language visibility.
That’s a noble use case! Their ignorance is disappointing. I’m just concerned that those same people will use the same feature to diminish minority languages indiscriminately and shut themselves and others out of the global conversation. The translate note feature helps with bridging global conversation for those who want to make the effort. It’s hard for me to be convinced that this should be implemented — but I’ll keep an open mind in case there’s feedback from more people that this is desired.
