I find myself blocking a lot of foreign communities just because they’re foreign. It feels wrong and unnecessary. This is the future isn’t it?

If I set my settings to English why can’t I just use Lemmy in English and never know that the person I’m chatting to is doing so in German and they never know that I’m doing so in English?

  • lily33@lemm.ee
    3·
    8 months ago

    Actually, it is already able to perform high quality translation. But it’s too expensive right now to use at scale.

    • taladar@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      8 months ago

      It will always struggle, as would a human translator. The concept of a perfect translation itself is just not achievable since languages are not just word-swapped copies of each other where each target language word has the exact same meaning as its counter-part in the source language.