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What do you think of including a translation feature on lemmy if we can figure out a privacy respecting way to do it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by nxlemmy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I think it would be great to be able to click a button on a comment\post and have it translate to your language. I think its possible to build a way to include this in a privacy respecting way (im not a coder so forgive my ignorance) if we use something like the google translate scraper that is used for this privacy respecting google translate frontend https://github.com/thedaviddelta/lingva-translate

Making it easier for people to communicate across languages would be pretty sweet for the fediverse.

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[–] lisko@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly? I think it's not worth the trouble. It sounds cool but we're better off without it

[–] Poed_P@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How come?? May you please elaborate?

[–] lisko@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Very difficult to implement and potentially little reward. I'm not convinced the community would benefit much from a bunch of machine translation. I think the expectation is reasonable that people will gather in communities based on the languages they know so if you have speakers of Italian on Lemmy, for example, they will use an Italian instance or Italian communities. This is already well supported by the software.

If people from different linguistic backgrounds need to communicate using a common language, the best choice would be Esperanto.

[–] Poed_P@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Toki Pona might be better just because it uses more common sounds and less of them. Might be easier to learn and speak from a background like Cantonese or something. Isn't Esperanto very euro-centric?

[–] lisko@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Euro centric is a loaded term. It's a kind of Indo European language but most people on Earth speak an IE language so it's the most efficient route.

[–] MadScientist@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

only European branches of Indo European. It's a mix of Germanic, Slavic, and Romance. if that's not eurocentric, in an objective way, i don't know what is