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I'll reply to my own comment for transparency, to avoid editing the above after a bunch of users replied.
Nota bene: this is solely a taunt to provoke self-reflection.
How many of you are genuinely concerned about the feasibility of a multilingual instance, even in languages that the admins might not be speakers of? And how many of you are instead pissed, because the idea of multiple languages in the same instance would invade the online "Lebensraum" of your "Reichsprache"?
Or even, here's a third alternative: perhaps you're already unable to use context even in the languages that you speak, and you're unable to recruit community help even if this is essential in a monolingual/bubbled community, and so you can't see yourself relying on it. If that's the case, sorry to burst your bubble but you shouldn't be touching any position of power over what others may or may not say.
And as I mentioned in another comment, it's rather curious how people here love to babble about minorities and their empowerment, but when it comes to practical actions to support said empowerment, suddenly it's "too hard". Guess what, this "no foreign language in my online Reich!" approach hurts the most speakers of minority languages.