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[–] sga@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

how much is the cost of running libretranslate (i am presuming it is not a small amount)? this can be abused to run commercial translation jobs for free by just posting comments. I know libretranslate by itself has a free website available, but i presume they would restrict the free apis, but I do not know how would they restrict here

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm running Libretranslate on my home server, it was very easy to set up and costs me nothing. It seems very lightweight and caches well so if 100 instances all requested translations of the same post it would only translate the first time.

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[–] Jerry@piefed.social 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

When you say, "if 100 instances all requested translations of the same post...", are you implying that your Libretranslate server can be used by other PieFed instances?

Or does each instance that wants to provide a translation service need to spin up their own Libretranslate server? And if each must self-host it, must it be Libretranslate?

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 point 6 months ago

Yes it can be used by others.

However after using it for a while I am not satisfied with the quality of the translation so I'm not keen on rolling it out further.

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[–] sga@lemmings.world 1 point 1 year ago

that is great. I feared that it may cost way too much and libretranslate folks might not like the cost

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