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by kabacha 2145 days ago
I'm on few international instances and always had German and French pop up even-though I have only english checked; Could it be that the instances themselves are faulty here?

I guess it makes sense that the filter would be confused on tech based talk as it includes a lot of english loan-words though it's a bit irritating when browsing public timelines.

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Language detection is more accurate on longer texts, short messages have a lot of false positives and many English loan-words would only worsen the situation indeed.