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

Show threadcharlag test accountApr 14, 2017
@eurasierboy on Android there's an option in Google translator that makes him translate anything from your clipboard in a tiny popup. so, copying is the key.
(also Yandex translator API has some wide limits of free use, I think they have English documentation)
Show threadJohn~🐺
@charlag yeah, this is why I stress just providing a way to copy the text - let the user decide how they want to translate it
Apr 14, 2017 at 4:21pmAmaroq