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   ArtistDora (dora@boles.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 02:06:00 JST ArtistDora

   • David Boles

   @david Does Mastodon have the ability to translate Toots? Thank you!

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     Masto.host (mastohost@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 02:05:13 JST Masto.host

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     • Baroque Mongoose
     • David Boles

     @david @mongoose @Dora translation is supported on Masto.host but the admin needs to provide an API key for the service they want to use for translation.

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     David Boles (david@boles.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 02:05:23 JST David Boles

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     • Baroque Mongoose

     @mongoose @Dora

     Good to know! my instance is managed by @mastohost -- which I guess doesn't support web translations as you suggest?

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     Baroque Mongoose (mongoose@vmst.io)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 02:05:24 JST Baroque Mongoose

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     • David Boles

     @Dora @david Depends which instance you're on. My instance has a very handy instant translator which works surprisingly well - useful because I know people who post in Ukrainian, Dutch, German, Yiddish, and Italian, and only in the last two languages do I stand any chance at all.

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     Masto.host (mastohost@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 02:35:56 JST Masto.host

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     • Baroque Mongoose
     • David Boles

     @david Mastodon currently supports DeppL and LibreTranslate

     @mongoose @Dora

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     David Boles (david@boles.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 02:35:57 JST David Boles

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     • Baroque Mongoose

     @mastohost @mongoose @Dora

     Ah! I had no idea. What are the most popular translation services to use?

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     Masto.host (mastohost@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 02:39:22 JST Masto.host

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     • Baroque Mongoose
     • David Boles

     @david Yes, that's it. Sorry for the typo :) You sign up for an API key on https://www.deepl.com/pro-api?cta=header-pro-api/

     @mongoose @Dora

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     David Boles (david@boles.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 02:39:24 JST David Boles

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     • Baroque Mongoose

     @mastohost @mongoose @Dora

     Hiya! Do you mean -- https://www.deepl.com/ -- if so, that's what the Ice Cubes App uses. Do I just sign up there for an API and send that to you and is there a cost on your side?

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     Masto.host (mastohost@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 02:40:13 JST Masto.host

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     • Baroque Mongoose
     • David Boles

     @david There is no extra cost on my end. Just email me requesting the API key to be added to your server configuration.

     @mongoose @Dora

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     Masto.host (mastohost@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 02:48:35 JST Masto.host

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     • Baroque Mongoose
     • David Boles

     @david None that I can think of. But most configuration settings on Mastodon https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/ can be changed on my end.

     @mongoose @Dora

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     David Boles (david@boles.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 02:48:36 JST David Boles

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     • Baroque Mongoose

     @mastohost @mongoose @Dora

     Perfection! I will get this done ASAP! So happy to know about it.

     Any other features I need to enable that I may not know about?

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     Masto.host (mastohost@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 03:13:54 JST Masto.host

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     • Michael Stanclift
     • Baroque Mongoose
     • David Boles

     @vmstan I do support it!

     @david @mongoose @Dora

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     Michael Stanclift (vmstan@vmst.io)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 03:13:56 JST Michael Stanclift

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     • Baroque Mongoose
     • David Boles

     @david @mongoose @Dora @mastohost there are two ways to do translation, one is through the DeepL API (which we use) and the other is running your own libtranslate instance.

     In either case you have to be able to connect your instance to it in the .env.production file, which you’d have to ask Masto Host if that’s something they support.

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     David Boles (david@boles.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 03:14:01 JST David Boles

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     • Baroque Mongoose

     @mongoose @Dora @mastohost @vmstan

     Thank you. I'll have to check into this.

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     Baroque Mongoose (mongoose@vmst.io)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 03:14:02 JST Baroque Mongoose

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     • Masto.host
     • Michael Stanclift
     • David Boles

     @david @Dora @mastohost The person you need to talk to is @vmstan , who runs our instance. He should be able to point you to the translation software.

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     Masto.host (mastohost@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 06:01:04 JST Masto.host

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     • David Boles

     @david Don't think so, just posts.

     @vmstan @mongoose @Dora

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     David Boles (david@boles.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 06:01:16 JST David Boles

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     • Michael Stanclift
     • Baroque Mongoose

     @vmstan @mongoose @Dora @mastohost

     Does Translation work on profiles?

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     Michael Stanclift (vmstan@vmst.io)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 06:01:17 JST Michael Stanclift

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     • David Boles

     @david @mongoose @Dora @mastohost Full disclosure, I have found the translation thing hit or miss overall. DeepL works great, when it's able to be triggered. The post you read has to be tagged with the language posted and be different from your UI.

     The ability is there, just takes some moon/star alignment for it to prompt, and even then it's only for the default Web UI.

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     David Boles (david@boles.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Feb-2023 06:01:24 JST David Boles

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     @vmstan @mongoose @Dora @mastohost

     Thank you! Super helpful!