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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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[–] Poed_P@lemmy.ml 1 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 5 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