One of the most requested features on Mastodon is a built-in language translation system, where you can click on a post and it automatically translates it into your language.

If this is important to you, and if you are comfortable using Github, please give this issue a thumbs up to let the developers know that this feature is wanted:

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i

(I thought this was already being worked on, but I cannot find any official announcements saying this.)

#Mastodon #Translation #Translations #Translate #Languages

@feditips Only if it doesn't use e.g. Google. I'm extremely skeeved out by the thought of people having a built-in button to violate our privacy.

@IceWolf @feditips I agree. The feature would be nice, but pretty sure it's way more useful at the ✨browser✨ level.

Like, Vivaldi has it built in, and I think Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge do too... so... Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari are lagging behind (again).

vivaldi.com/features/translate

@matt @feditips Google Chrome presumably sends it to Google, so that's equally bad. Edge, I'm unsure about, but I bet it uses The Cloud™ as well...

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@matt @feditips Firefox's is /offline/, which is the ONLY okay way to do it.

@matt @feditips (Sending it to the Masto server you're on wouldn't be bad either, seeing as how it already has the post, but that's a world of difference from sending it to some rando company.)

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