After Twitter killed the public timeline, users' experience became pretty much limited to the language of the filter bubble they live in.
I understand that some of us make no use of other languages in the federated TL, but complaining that people on Mastodon write in their own language is useless.
If you want to have an English-only feed, don't ask for filters in the federated TL – rather, follow people you find interesting and build the TL you like. It's also beneficial to your instance.
@miramarco But I enjoy watching random people talking about random things. I don't want to build a new bubble for myself, but I would quite like to restrict toots to the ones I can understand.
@Angostura Fair point, but I believe that having both a personal and a local/federated TL is already a good compromise. It really depends on the people you follow though – following diverse people with a fair number of good boosters helps a lot in stepping out of your bubble
@miramarco @Angostura I view it as a reason to learn French.