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What you should do as a mod is set the allowed languages in the community settings. Then people wont be able to post in other languages. Though I realize that the UI for this isnt so good for now.
Is it possible to implement a built in translation feature? Or is that too much?
Of course its possible, afaik Piefed uses Libretranslate for this. So the same would work for Lemmy, someone just needs to find the time to implement it.
Translation costs either money or user data. Probably a political issue.
Personally, I still can't understand why Lemmy needs to deal with post and comment languages anyway. It's a reasonable feature for microblogging. But when you start sorting content into groups (aka boards, communities, etc.), you don't really need to mix different languages to discuss one specific topic.
Netnews and Bulletin Board Systems had language- and location-specific communities. Everyone participating in one of these communities/groups/boards was writing in the same language.
When you view the global post listing from all communities, it shouldnt display posts in languages that you dont speak. Similarly it shouldnt be possible to make a post in Danish or Polish in a German community. With Lemmy 1.0 there will be automatic language detection available so you wont have to specify it manually for each comment. And translations could be implemented using Libretranslate (selfhosted).
When an mod selects “Moderator view,” they will see all posts & comments in their communities regardless. But when they’re not in “Moderator view,” visibility works the same as for everyone else.
I can’t speak for all mods, but I almost never use “Moderator view,” and I just leave my language setting unset, so I see all languages. I also always set the language for every post & comment I make.
Some mods don’t “police” their communities, and just respond to reports, so this wouldn’t matter to them.
On top of this, every post or comment that is reported shows on the report page, whatever language it was posted in
this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2025
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