@prologic@twtxt.net they did it once. Just once, that I remember. If it was done often, it would make it hard to interact. Imagine how far—not!—Linux would have gotten should Linus insisted in conducting all development in Finnish. No good, right?
Again, people can spin their pods in whatever language—actually, that would be kind of hard because Yarn’s translation is seriously lacking, but I digress—but I would like not to see twts in languages I can’t understand. Let’s say I follow “Albert”, who normally writes in English. It is all fine and dandy. If he starts interacting with people in Icelandic, more and more, I will have to unfollow him. How would that help?
@movq@www.uninformativ.de @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org det er lidt kedeligt at være den eneste dansker i denne garnverden, men håber på en dag af få spedt denne trolddom til mange andre her til lands og i resten af verden og ude i rummet en dag måske.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org det bliver de snart håber jeg
Ma oskan natuke eesti keelt så jeg forstår også få ord på finsk
I literally have no way of knowing what you guys are talking about. It would appear Chrome on macOS has no built in capability to do anything here, no languages are detected, there is no “highlight” and “translate” thingy. This is just awful for me 😂
@david@netbros.com I may have said that of course, and I’m quite sure you can quite me the Twt Hash in which I said it 😅 – But let’s not take my “intent” out of context here 😂 You are right, and I see your point (_in fact I believe all three of you @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @movq@www.uninformativ.de and yourself @david@netbros.com _) have all made this point quite clear 😂 – We are missing User-level controls around the notion of either
- I want to only see content in language X
or:
- As a User it would be nice if content in language X was automatically translated for me in my native language Y
If you recall @jlj@twt.nfld.uk and I briefly explored the possibility of utilising LibreTranslate here, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to get very far operationally with it. I gave up 😢
@david@netbros.com I agree, that’s likely how a new “Language Preference” will have to go. And yes it’s all in the details, which we haven’t even begun to spec this out yet (unless you count the various Yarns already in play 😂 – Which I do, as they help drive the discussion, and the platform/ecosystem)
@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, I remember. I haven’t given up on running it again one day, but it’s certainly fallen down my list of future projects.