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1. switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2019 14:25:40 UTC switching.social

   Something often requested is a libre alternative to Google Translate.

   There's a site called Apertium which is a free open translation system:

   https://www.apertium.org

   It's still under development, you can help out at:

   https://github.com/apertium

   #GoogleTranslate #Alternatives #DeleteGoogle #Translation #FLOSS

   • soloojos (Mastodon Uruguay), Colegota El Villano and danielside repeated this.
   • switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2019 14:32:08 UTC switching.social

     • Mehrkorn

     @mehdorn

     As far as I know DeepL isn't free or open?

   • switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2019 15:10:26 UTC switching.social

     • :matrix: Niklas

     @nipos

     It's not perfect or even ready (it's missing many languages too including massive ones like German), but I couldn't find any other alternatives as developed as this :blobsad:

     Hopefully someone can work with the code already released to make it more privacy-friendly.

   • switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2019 15:24:00 UTC switching.social

     in reply to

     • :matrix: Niklas

     @nipos

     By the way, there was some discussion in an older thread about installing Apertium without Google stuff, I don't know how much help this is?

     https://mastodon.at/web/statuses/101620454193669818

   • switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2019 15:25:05 UTC switching.social

     in reply to

     • :matrix: Niklas

     @nipos

     By the way, there was some discussion in an older thread about installing Apertium without Google stuff, I don't know how much help this is?

     https://weirder.earth/@rubah/101622610547601566

   • switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2019 16:20:57 UTC switching.social

     • The Doctor

     @drwho

     Thanks :blobsmile: Just checking though, it's not libre?

   • switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2019 17:07:12 UTC switching.social

     • Stemy

     @Stem

     Yeah, it's clearly not ready for "primetime" yet, but hopefully the work already done leads to something more useful to a general audience.

     Bongo @Gnusocial.Cc repeated this.
   • switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2019 18:30:04 UTC switching.social

     • Mehrkorn
     • eo

     @eo @mehdorn

     Perhaps foundations and/or governments can fund this kind of service through grants? (I think this happens with e.g. OpenStreetMap's servers?)

   • switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Thursday, 22-Aug-2019 18:37:37 UTC switching.social

     • Fedilab

     @fedilab

     I used to list OpenNMT on switching.social's "Bubbling Under" section but their demo server seemed to disappear?

     Good to hear they are still going 👍

   • switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2019 12:15:22 UTC switching.social

     • Ɠεɱɩoɠ

     @gemlog

     Neither of those are free or open.

     DeepL says explicitly that there is no privacy on the free version of their site.

     Yandex are a for-profit tech giant that makes money from ads and tracking people.

   • switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2019 14:09:02 UTC switching.social

     • :matrix: Niklas
     • sanctions kill ☭

     @nipos @felix

     I wish I could help but I'm not a developer or admin, so I don't really know the backend issues here :blobsad:

     Obviously anything that removes Google from the picture is a good idea 👍

   • switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2019 14:31:15 UTC switching.social

     • :matrix: Niklas
     • sanctions kill ☭

     @nipos @felix

     I'll see what I can do

   • switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2019 18:16:54 UTC switching.social

     @ironmonkey

     Yeah, going from one surveillance-oriented tech giant to another isn't really much help :blobsad:

   • switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Friday, 23-Aug-2019 18:17:12 UTC switching.social

     @ironmonkey

     Yeah, going from one surveillance-oriented tech giant to another isn't really much help :blobsad:

   • switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2019 15:00:56 UTC switching.social

     • YunoHost
     • Unkle Bonehead

     @unklebonehead @yunohost

     I think Weblate is a slightly different kind of translation? (for people manually translating rather than computers automatically translating)