Note 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.
dmonitor 14 hours ago [-]
Just 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.
nitwit005 12 hours ago [-]
That 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.
doright 7 hours ago [-]
Has 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 7 hours ago [-]
Me 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.)
guywithahat 14 hours ago [-]
Can 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.
altairprime 12 hours ago [-]
(X as in Twitter, for those this clarification saves a click.)
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The various art, anime and vtuber fans were following Japanese accounts for a long time.