Different thoughts are good for you.
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 💯 the translators have been huge contributors making Damus globally accessible and it makes me sad that we haven’t found a way to make sure they are compensated value-for-value in the same way that code contributors do.

All the translation attribution is currently in Transifex and can be looked up manually. The problem is that the integration to GitHub loses that attribution so it makes it hard — writing a script to call their API would make that a bit easier. Moreover, Transifex accounts aren’t linked to Nostr pubkeys or Lightning addresses so we would have to manually figure that out and manage that list so that we could map it back to people who can be zapped. I don’t currently have the capacity to do those things but maybe someone else on team Damus might?

As an aside, my ideal long term vision is actually building a translation management system on Nostr with a dedicated event kind for translations that could also integrate with the Nostr Git spec. In another life with enough time and funding, I wouldn’t mind working on it. But it’s currently a pipe dream.