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   Daniel Supernault (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2026 17:37:19 JST Daniel Supernault

   RE: https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/117234465193694527

   I found a clever and efficient way to handle translations offline, with 59 supported languages and built in language detection.

   We also cache translated text using Tanstack Query, and use your device language to check only visible captions to see if we show the translation button.

   The first time you press the button, we download a small translation model (30MB) and perform the translation, caching the model for future use.

   Short text, mentions and links are ignored.

   #pixeldev

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     Daniel Supernault (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2026 18:04:16 JST Daniel Supernault

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     • Andrea Brancatelli

     @skeyby That would require admins to setup and maintain a separate service, and these on-device models are quite power efficient.

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     Andrea Brancatelli (skeyby@punk.kitchen)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Sep-2026 18:04:17 JST Andrea Brancatelli

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     @dansup@mastodon.social

     Hello Daniel!

     out of curiosity, since the "original" message is already coming from the server, what is the point of having the translation happening on the device? Couldn't it happen in the server directly then?