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I prefer seeing things in their native language and then translation to preferred language being secondary or optional.

A Babel fish!

I think a lot of nuance will be lost, also having to translate it yourself helps learning the new language, which we should support, because not knowing another language is what holds a lot of people back in developing countries. Automatically translating is pampering the people but not for their good in the long term. Translating can be embedded and done by clicking a translate button as on other social media already. This way people at least also read the original language still, otherwise they will not get into contact anymore with foreign languages, which is bad for their development.

Only a good idea if the original is also preserved and always shown, only showing the translation automatically would be detrimental for language development. Something that is really needed in for example LatAm, where all English movies and series are dubbed, which led to very few people speaking English well, which takes away international and better paid opportunities.

This hit hard the other day. Thinking about doing things a bit differently. #[0]

Amethyst already does this. I had a conversation in English with the other person in Spanish, and I noticed the different language only when looking at it in another client. Magic.

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