For the love of our tusky mascot, please, please, please, people. Select which language you are writing in (and apply as standard in your settings if it's your main language, you can change it per post) so other people can use the auto translate button.
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For the love of our tusky mascot, please, please, please, people. Select which language you are writing in (and apply as standard in your settings if it's your main language, you can change it per post) so other people can use the auto translate button.
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@sadedoes I feel the same way.
However, when I make a post about it, there's always someone who complains that they post in different languages all the time and it's an annoyance to have to change it all the time.
I noticed you have several languages in your bio, do you see this as a reason it could be a design problem?
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@BeAware I don't see it as a design problem.
I post mostly in English, so my standard setting is in English (making sense here, not often the case )
I will be more likely to reply in Dutch or Spanish to a post in that language than start a post in those languages. When I reply to a correctly tagged post I don't have to change languages in the post settings (I noticed the other day).
The language setting is an accessibility feature like the alt text in my opinion. It takes little time to be nice and allow other people to understand your posts.
The one interface improvement I might add (and it might be already the case in some clients) is having a shortlist of languages you're familiar with, so switching languages is easier / faster.
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@sadedoes that's a good point and thanks for sharing your experience.
Hopefully someday people will start using it correctly so I don't have to mute so many people, but right now, it seems this is where we're at.
I'm a one language guy, so I only know my experience in that I can't read 50+% of the public timeline most of the time and it really sucks.
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@riley @BeAware it will depend on what translation software the instance uses and whether they want to feed even more content to AI.
Just checking off what language you use means it's easier for everyone.
Using language settings on posts means that people not interested in posts in other languages can filter them off as well, instead of having them shown up in the time line.
It's just being generally nice and polite to other users, which is (I thought) one of the main rules.
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@sadedoes Why do you think there's only one way to do AI? The recently most famous, most flashiest, and one of the suckiest, ones?
Automated Language Identification is fairly old tech, and mostly works pretty well. It doesn't need new large datasets continually fed into some sort of learning process. Sure, as languages evolve, a few generations down the line, some minor recalibration might be appropriate, but the old-school tricks for establishing common corpuses of contemporary language will still be perfectly cromulent fifty or hundred years into the future (assuming that there will still be some future left in fifty years' time).
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