I'm a French speaker, so I try to participate mainly on the French speaking communities such as !forumlibre@jlai.lu, !rance@jlai.lu, !cineseries@jlai.lu, but the issue is that apart from the 2-3 top ones, the others are usually very quiet.

I know it's a chicken and egg problem (as you need content for people to come and participate), but for instance with movies, I'm always torn between posting the content in the French-speaking community, or the much larger !movies@lemm.ee, where I know that the audience is much bigger. Same for science, history, most topics actually.

I don't expect anyone to have a magical formula (the most obvious solution being just having more speakers of that language on Lemmy), but I was curious to see if other people in the same situation had insights to share.

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[–] M500@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

It seems Apple has an api that can detect and translate languages. Google and Microsoft also have one too.

I’m not an iOS developer, but there could be a few options to implement this feature.

Each message could be analyzed for the language and if it’s not the target language and is a supported language then just translate it.

You could have a button on the post that you can click to have it analyze through text and then translate it.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applicationservices/translation?ssp=1&darkschemeovr=1&setlang=en&cc=PH&safesearch=moderate