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Japanese X is now America's favorite corner of the internet
- guywithahat 7mo agoCan confirm Japanese X is great, the translate feature in general is a lot of fun and works incredibly well, I didn't realize the tweets were translated for the longest time.
- dmonitor 7mo agoJust goes to show how much our online behavior and trends are determined by algorithms. The translate button has been there for years, but I guess some engineer flipped the "show international tweets on the timeline" button last week and this is the result.
- ronsor 7mo agoNote that Japanese X lacks a lot of the political insanity of normal X (or even Bluesky). They mostly discuss culture, hobbies, interests, and daily activity, rather than whatever outrageous thing some political lightning rod is doing at that moment.
- altairprime 7mo ago(X as in Twitter, for those this clarification saves a click.)
- nitwit005 7mo agoThat isn't exactly new. There had been Google translate support. They swapped in Grok more recently. The various art, anime and vtuber fans were following Japanese accounts for a long time.
- tistoon 6mo agoYou miss the key point here. Before, you had to manually click to get the translation. Now, not only it's automatic, foreign posts are also relevant/arrive to your own feed.
- nitwit005 6mo agoI didn't miss the main idea of the article. I am, in fact, responding to an idea it states directly.
- doright 6mo agoHas been a thing for a while and I almost exclusively follow Japanese accounts. Sometimes it's the only place that certain Japanese artists post their work.
- krapp 6mo agoMe too. I deleted all of my posts, comments, likes and follows except for a couple of Japanese accounts (primarily Aya Nishitani, author of Shin Megami Tensei, who posts a lot of interesting stuff about Japanese and Western occultism sometimes in English.)
- kalleboo 6mo agoI really wish Elon had sold off the Japanese side of X to Yahoo/Softbank. He could probably have made back everything he spent on it in the first place and then it could be its own thing.