John~🐺Apr 7, 2017

RE: translation feature requests: this is probably not going to happen - if it does, not for a long time. The financial risk is too high.

My response to this is also that while right now it may feel like a Tower of Babel, the nature of mastodon instances would suggest that communities will settle over time and this problem will alleviate itself. The most I can offer immediately is the ability to copy toot text so you may paste in a translator of your choosing

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@eurasierboy I'd love to see some metadata associated with each toot denoting language so I could filter out languages I don't understand.

Perhaps a user-level default setting, modifiable by a multi-select for individual toots? I've seen a good few bilingual toots, which is an interesting possibility enabled by longer character limit.

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@nonesuchluck should the API begin providing this, I would gladly reflect it in the UI