I find myself blocking a lot of foreign communities just because they're foreign. It feels wrong and unnecessary. This is the future isn't it?
If I set my settings to English why can't I just use Lemmy in English and never know that the person I'm chatting to is doing so in German and they never know that I'm doing so in English?
Most translators aren't perfect, they generally can not understand context
A solution could be to have it run on request. Reddit doesn't even have that, it could be a cool new tool
Run an open source translation engine, and have a 'translate to account language's button. It could do one of
I don't know about others but I certainly don't want one "account language". As someone who speaks both English and German I want content in both languages to be accessible to me directly without a translator and if I do want content translated it probably varies by the quality of the translation which one i prefer.
Fair enough, maybe a checkbox section in the settings for which languages to list?
Mastodon handles it by allowing you to hook up DeepL API which is free up to a certain point. I run it on my single-user Mastodon instance and it works well, you get a translate button like on The Site Formerly Known As Twitter
Mastodon has support for this. some instances have it enabled.
Especially in language that intentionally leave things obvious from context out, like japanese.