If you don’t choose the same language as the top-level comment you cannot answer in the same tree. The wheel will just keep spinning but when you look at the API request you see that it returns something like “bad language” and upon choosing the right language you can comment again!

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    This is super helpful, thank you for explaining! I’ve run into this problem several times now where it didn’t really make sense (I dont think there was a language mismatch) but at least I know what was going on now!

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        I think the original intention was that communities exists where people speaking different languages coexist and only see content they actively understand.

        The reality now of course looks like every language group will have a dedicated community, often even on a country-specific(-ish) instance, rendering the whole idea obsolete.

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          Hopefully they just focus on implementing a convenient way to translate comments so people who speak different languages can easily communicate.

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    Literally just had this issue. Was trying to reply to MY OWN thread on the Connect app on Android and it wouldn’t let me post. Had to use the browse to reply

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    they could block the comment session and wirte in now-non-writable commment block “different language” or something

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    As someone with less tolerance for native speakers failing at doing so, I wonder whether this can be repurposed.

    But maybe a regex filter on such like /(my|the|some) emails/ or /literally/ would be the same. As that’s possible as a client-side feature, it doesn’t even need to be in on the server side until it’s a federation filter.