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is there a universal translator for Lemmy?
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I find myself blocking a lot of foreign communities just because they're foreign. It feels wrong and unnecessary. This is the future isn't it?
If I set my settings to English why can't I just use Lemmy in English and never know that the person I'm chatting to is doing so in German and they never know that I'm doing so in English?
A solution could be to have it run on request. Reddit doesn't even have that, it could be a cool new tool
Run an open source translation engine, and have a 'translate to account language's button. It could do one of
I don't know about others but I certainly don't want one "account language". As someone who speaks both English and German I want content in both languages to be accessible to me directly without a translator and if I do want content translated it probably varies by the quality of the translation which one i prefer.
Fair enough, maybe a checkbox section in the settings for which languages to list?
Mastodon handles it by allowing you to hook up DeepL API which is free up to a certain point. I run it on my single-user Mastodon instance and it works well, you get a translate button like on The Site Formerly Known As Twitter
Mastodon has support for this. some instances have it enabled.