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:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/9690
(I thought this was already being worked on, but I cannot find any official announcements saying this.)
@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.
To give some context, it must be the most common question I got asked when the big new wave of members joined: where's the translate button? It's like people just expect it to be there.
Whether or not it is more useful through a browser, people are looking for it in Mastodon itself (shrug)
@feditips @matt I'm probably gonna go thumbs-/down/ it (assuming it uses some cloud service) 'cause, yeah, not cool.
Better to explain to people that it's not really a good thing to ship people's private discussions to Google. (And yeah private discussions do happen on here, followers-only scope is great.)
I am assuming it would be run by someone connected to Mastodon.
The third party Mastodon app Fedilab (@apps)has actually gone ahead and set up its own instance, you can try it here:
It works in the Fedilab app too.
@feditips@mstdn.social @IceWolf@masto.brightfur.net @matt@oslo.town @apps@toot.fedilab.app oh and FYI, all Misskey instances use DeepL
@thatonecalculator @feditips @matt @apps That's not cool either! Misskey should /stop/.
@IceWolf@masto.brightfur.net @feditips@mstdn.social @matt@oslo.town @apps@toot.fedilab.app Wait, why? DeepL is pretty great and the way Misskey does it, you're not sending over any personal data.
@thatonecalculator @feditips @matt @apps Doesn't it like, send over the post text? It kinda has to.
@IceWolf@masto.brightfur.net @feditips@mstdn.social @matt@oslo.town @apps@toot.fedilab.app Yea, but it's not like your IP is being sent. And DeepL is more privacy - friendly than Google.
@thatonecalculator @feditips @matt @apps It's still a random third-party we don't know or trust.
There shouldn't be a button built in to send our posts there.
@IceWolf@masto.brightfur.net @feditips@mstdn.social @matt@oslo.town @apps@toot.fedilab.app If you put something on the public internet, expect for it to be scraped.
@thatonecalculator @feditips @matt @apps /Fedi isn't public./
Followers-only exists.
@IceWolf@masto.brightfur.net @feditips@mstdn.social @matt@oslo.town @apps@toot.fedilab.app 'Followers only' is just a visibility schema and isn't even respected by all Fediverse software.
@thatonecalculator @feditips @matt @apps Yes, and those visibility schemas are /important./
Privacy matters! Not everything is public!
(Also, followers-only actually does control where your post gets sent. It only gets sent to instances that have critters following you.)
@thatonecalculator @feditips @matt @apps And that's that instance's problem.
@thatonecalculator @feditips @matt @apps Consent from the person reading our posts is not consent from us, /making/ our posts.
@IceWolf@masto.brightfur.net @feditips@mstdn.social @matt@oslo.town @apps@toot.fedilab.app on an instance that doesn't respect followers only, all users of that instance will be able to see the post.