Software developer from Germany who sometimes makes 3D graphics with Blender.
A few months ago, someone asked Google for countries that start with an H. In German.
It listed Hungary, which is called “Ungarn” in German. OK, an understandable mistake. But then it gave the additional information that Hungary sometimes gets called Holland.
Two things upset me:
Does this include thinking abuse and suicide are funny? (Relates to another thread in this community.)
Reading all the other comments made me realize that Lemmy may have the same age structure as the other site.
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
Less funny if you remember the background of the meme. 😢
Translation costs either money or user data. Probably a political issue.
Personally, I still can’t understand why Lemmy needs to deal with post and comment languages anyway. It’s a reasonable feature for microblogging. But when you start sorting content into groups (aka boards, communities, etc.), you don’t really need to mix different languages to discuss one specific topic.
Netnews and Bulletin Board Systems had language- and location-specific communities. Everyone participating in one of these communities/groups/boards was writing in the same language.
It’s sad that the young people here all forgot Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five. 😢
Centralized has advantages for normal users who want to report bugs.
I remember when people started migrating to GitHub from Google Code. Most users have some Google account that they could use to report bugs. But GitHub was new.
For a long time I tried reaching developers by mail, but this wasn’t possible anymore. I had to create a GitHub account.
I unsubscribed. But he gained new subscribers. Nobody else cared.
A tool that gives at least 40% wrong answers, used to find 90% errors?
It’s not gore if it’s from the Bible. 🙃
Make a new account on Reddit, and you soon learn that votes (and therefore karma points) do matter. Even the karma in one subreddit can be relevant, so older accounts joining subreddits need to be careful not to annoy the local establishment.
They matter in the original intention of votes: visibility.
Votes get used to sort content.
On my very first day on Lemmy, I couldn’t see the comments to most posts. Luckily I found an answer to this problem that was posted over 2 years ago: I forgot to select additional languages to just “Undetermined.”
I just skimmed over the texts on the settings page and assumed “undetermined” works like with other social media sites: if I don’t select anything, it shows me every language. And as communities are usually formed around a single language, it didn’t seem important. This isn’t the case with Lemmy. Undetermined is its own language, not a wildcard for all languages.
When users don’t know how multiselect works on desktop web, they probably end up with just one language selected and miss every post that has no language set.
It’s very strange.
I have seen pictures and videos about these strange design decisions. But I don’t know if the guests simply accepted their fate or if they complained.
I wouldn’t want to pay full price for a room with missing bathroom doors. Or a window in the wall to the bathroom.
All you people who were hating on racists on Twitter, you were hating on foreigners!! 🙃
Oh, yes. The day after the “Glitter” soundtrack was released.
He probably thinks his AI is a god because it knows how many Bs are in blueberry.
By the way, many European countries need qualified workers. 😉