[FEAT] Docs for modifying locale texts

[gcleaves]

Is this a new feature request?

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Wanted change

Hi. Would you be open to including some tips on how to modify Mastodon text (locale translations) in the documentation? If so, I will create a pull request. I struggled to figure it out but now have it working on my instance.

The docs would cover two cases, server-side translations and client side translations. Server-side is easy, just need to map an override folder into the right place. Client side requires changes to the Dockerfile and re-building the image.

Not sure this is in scope, thus my question before creating pull request.

Reason for change

Tweaking the site's copy (text) is an important part of adjusting Mastodon for a given community.

Proposed code change

Update to the README.md. I propose a new section something like this:

Customzing your instance's translations (text)

Mastodon copy is split between backend code and frontend code. Backend translations can be updated pretty easily.

### Backend translations

Instructions on mounting a volume into the container's /app/www/config/locales/overrides path and sending puma -USR2 signal.

Frontend translations

Instructions on modifying Dockerfile.

[thespad]

If the server-side overrides can just be dropped in at runtime we can symlink the path to /config and avoid a second volume mount. If anything requires recompiling assets, etc. and therefore building your own image from the Dockerfile then it's beyond the scope of the readme.

[LinuxServer-CI]

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