There are fully FOSS translation projects, like Argos Translate.
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2022
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oh wow nice I didn't know this existed, thanks!
I would suggest the Mastodon way, choosing the language you are writing your post and additional tabs for different languages or, as additional suggesting, using LibreTranslate instead of relying in propietary services.
finally a good post
It's a cool idea that would come handy. But should it be implemented on the front-end or on the back-end?
Honestly? I think it's not worth the trouble. It sounds cool but we're better off without it
How come?? May you please elaborate?
Very difficult to implement and potentially little reward. I'm not convinced the community would benefit much from a bunch of machine translation. I think the expectation is reasonable that people will gather in communities based on the languages they know so if you have speakers of Italian on Lemmy, for example, they will use an Italian instance or Italian communities. This is already well supported by the software.
If people from different linguistic backgrounds need to communicate using a common language, the best choice would be Esperanto.
Toki Pona might be better just because it uses more common sounds and less of them. Might be easier to learn and speak from a background like Cantonese or something. Isn't Esperanto very euro-centric?
Euro centric is a loaded term. It's a kind of Indo European language but most people on Earth speak an IE language so it's the most efficient route.
only European branches of Indo European. It's a mix of Germanic, Slavic, and Romance. if that's not eurocentric, in an objective way, i don't know what is
maybe someone can make a community for translated posts. Per language maybe