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   Erik Moeller (eloquence@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 01-Dec-2022 19:45:39 JST Erik Moeller

   I'm really glad our server, #SocialCoop, enabled Mastodon 4.0's translation feature. I'm now following a few non-English accounts and it's super-seamless.

   I actually prefer it to Twitter's, in which I can't translate from the timeline view, only from individual tweets (web UI).

   If your server doesn't have it enabled yet, might be worth considering! And if it does - go follow some non-English accounts and give it a try :)

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     Masto.host (mastohost@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-Dec-2022 19:45:26 JST Masto.host

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     • Eugen Rochko
     • Aral Balkan

     @aral All you need is to send me your API key for DeepL or LibreTranslate and I can add it to your env variables.

     Not the same as having it in the Mastodon administration section but you can have translation even if you are using my service.

     Also, I can add an option on Masto.host web interface to change automate this process. For now it's just manual but some instances have already sent me their API keys and it's working great.

     @eloquence @Gargron

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 01-Dec-2022 19:45:36 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Eugen Rochko
     • Masto.host

     @eloquence This is such a major feature I can’t believe you can’t use it unless you have ssh access to your server (so I can’t use it on @mastohost, for example). Exposing the config setting in the web interface would go a long way to not making Mastodon a second-class citizen on managed hosting and incentivising more, small instances.

     CC @Gargron

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     Masto.host (mastohost@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-Dec-2022 20:52:28 JST Masto.host

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     • Mastodon.ie
     • Bernard McKeever
     • Darryl Collins 🚴🏻

     @darrylxxx :)

     Regarding the verification not working, looking at the page on your profile it could be related to https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/15316

     @mastodonie @dregin

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     Darryl Collins 🚴🏻 (darrylxxx@mastodon.ie)'s status on Thursday, 01-Dec-2022 20:52:29 JST Darryl Collins 🚴🏻

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     • Masto.host
     • Mastodon.ie
     • Bernard McKeever

     @mastohost

     @mastodonie @dregin useful for all the non Irish speakers! ?
     (Also verification still not working).

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     Masto.host (mastohost@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 04:13:02 JST Masto.host

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     • i am root

     @null You add the env variables mentioned on https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19218 to your .env.production and then restart Mastodon processes.

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     i am root (null@puddle.town)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 04:13:03 JST i am root

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     • Eugen Rochko
     • Aral Balkan
     • Masto.host

     @mastohost @aral @eloquence @Gargron

     Sorry for a slight threadjack here, but how do we enable translations as admins?

     Is LibreTranslate and/or DeepL built into 4.x and we just need to add API keys? Or is there a third-party component that needs to be installed?

     I can't find any documentation on it at docs.joinmastodon.org. I did find the PR at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19218, but I'd love to avoid parsing all the code if possible.

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     Masto.host (mastohost@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 06:11:02 JST Masto.host

     in reply to

     • i am root

     @null Not really, they have different sets of limits. It depends on the server you are going to use it in and what are the needs for those servers.

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     i am root (null@puddle.town)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 06:11:03 JST i am root

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     • Masto.host

     @mastohost Thank you very much! Do you have an opinion on which of the two APIs to use?

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     Masto.host (mastohost@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 07:09:40 JST Masto.host

     in reply to

     • i am root

     @null no problem :) glad to help.

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     i am root (null@puddle.town)'s status on Friday, 02-Dec-2022 07:09:41 JST i am root

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     • Masto.host

     @mastohost gotcha. I went with DeepL given the free plan and my modest needs. I got it working. Thanks again for the help.