Samuel
to add to this, there’s a few product-y reasons why I would really like a createPost API 1. we could run a server-side language detection model that actually works, so we wouldn’t need the language select in the client (it sucks) 2. you wouldn’t need to specify a createdAt time anymore (cont.)
P(aul) Frazee@pfrazee.com· 13 Nov 2025
Nerding out about the question of whether the client or the server should be the one who speaks to the PDS
The politics of purely client-side apps
There's a surprisingly nuanced discussion in development about the political economy of clients and servers in the Atmosphere
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Emelia
You'll always need language selection in the client. Models very often get it wrong
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Samuel
@samuel.fm
this is more just a case of "we need more signal". the overwhelming majority of peope are not gonna be clicking that button, so it mostly just tells you what they have their phone set to
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Emelia
You could do a "detectedLanguage" in API responses & possibly send the post content to a service for language detection before sending to PDS for storage.