Love that Micro.blog Discover now features non-English posts too. It would be great to get a translate button at the bottom of these posts (next to bookmark, embed) so everyone could enjoy them. Or would that be “othering” them? @KimberlyHirsh @manton

@skoobz Yeah, I wouldn’t mind a translate button on my posts. It’s how the feature is implemented without being too complex. You can set a primary language in your account settings. The translate link appears for you only on posts that are not in the primary language you selected.

@pratik @manton Great question! Maybe if every post had a little Translate link alongside Reply, etc that kicked you out to Google Translate with the post copy and pasted and Detect Language on? If it's on posts that are originally in English, too, then I wouldn't expect it would be othering.

@KimberlyHirsh @manton Dunno about technical implementation but check out the conversation thread. @skoobz made a good point

@KimberlyHirsh iOS has a translate option for selected text in any web view, and I suppose Android has one too. I use that often to translate auto-generated alt text into Dutch on micro∙blog, but also for foreign language posts.

@pratik I just use the contextual menu on my device.

@markstoneman Ah! Of course. But I was thinking more on the lines of how intuitive it is on Mastodon apps

@pratik I figured. Even there I sometimes turn to other translation sources, especiall DeepL.