Any native Swedish speakers interested in helping review this translation of https://jointhefediverse.net?
https://github.com/jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net/pull/158
#fediverse#JoinTheFediverse #translation #localization #swedish
🌐 Can you help translate Bonfire into your language?
We’re looking for translators and bilingual folks to help localise Bonfire extensions and UI into as many languages as possible — especially before the 1.0 release!
No coding needed — just a love of words.
🔥 Join here: https://app.transifex.com/bonfire/bonfire/
P.S. You can also help by translating this very message and/or sharing it! The more communities we reach, the more accessible Bonfire becomes. 🌍💬
A healthy economy doesn't break if one big conglomerate goes down, for whatever reason.
Our economy is not healthy, but it could be. Local and Regional producers are the key to a sustainable future, not relying on exploitative food and goods shipped halfway around the world.
The caveat is that sweatshop conditions cannot be tolerated. It only works with living wages and reasonable incomes.
Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-06-23/commoning-diversity-and-small-scale-manufacturing/
#Localization #Community#Sustainability#Economy#DeGrowth#LivingWage #
"In Mandarin Chinese, World Wide Web is commonly translated via a phono-semantic matching to wàn wéi wǎng (万维网), which satisfies www and literally means "10,000-dimensional net", a translation that reflects the design concept and proliferation of the World Wide Web."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
via https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114605076806447333
#internet#TheWeb#WorldWideWeb #chinese #language #linguistics
Reminds me of the localization efforts on Mozilla's Firefox OS several years ago.
"Ibrahima Sarr, a Senegalese coder, led the translation of Firefox into Fulah, which is spoken by 20m people from Senegal to Nigeria. “Crash” became hookii (a cow falling over but not dying); “timeout” became a honaama (your fish has got away). “Aspect ratio” became jeendondiral, a rebuke from elders when a fishing net is wrongly woven."
#technology #language #linguistics #translation #localization
EDIT May 2: Thank everyone for sharing, this has all been taken care of!
Could someone who speaks #Arabic, #Chinese, or #Basque help me update the https://jointhefediverse.net site? I'm trying to remove links to joinfirefish.org and want to make sure I do it right.
Any help would be very appreciated!
A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate
![Commoning, diversity and small-scale manufacturing
By Zoe Gilbertson, originally published by Liflad Thoughts
June 23, 2025
A healthy ecosystem is diverse and small-scale manufacturing systems have the potential to contain much more diversity than industrial levels of production. I use bread and linen - basic daily items of food and textiles to illustrate this position.
Teaser image credit: Bread and linen: Monika Grabkowska via Unsplash.
"Diversity in production will not ‘make us money’..."
[A decent living for everyone involved is the goal, not any small group getting rich.]](https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/114/733/339/006/146/399/original/d8a66e43011def11.png)