If I could steal ONE feature from the bird app to give to Mastodon, it would be to add Google translate. I hate missing out on toots from non-English speakers. Yeah, I can technically run them through manually, but that's an extra step added onto every single toot, and it may not even be something I'm interested in.
@NekoAlice isn’t mastodon open source? Don’t know squat about computer stuff myself, lol, but I wonder, wouldn’t that mean it could be possible for anyone who with the know how to go into the code and add such a feature?
@samusaran311 It's definitely possible, from a technical standpoint. But I think there's probably legal barriers. I don't imagine Google lets just *any* developer use their API for free. Twitter probably licensed it.