Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music
The Funkwhale music platform is alive and in active development, and they're working on a feature to filter far-right artists off the network. Some Fediverse self-hosters are divided on letting a third party decide what should be allowed in their library.
Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music
The long-dormant Funkwhale project is still alive and in active development, with an impending 2.0 release predicted to land soon. Recently, the project posted an update regarding a new initiative forSean Tilley (We Distribute)
_edge
in reply to Sean Tilley • • •I support that fight against Nazi content, but hard-coded blacklists in a open-source Fediverse software? Something is off here.
Hope they find a better way. Make it the default behaviour, include it in all tutorials, defederate.
comfy
in reply to _edge • • •On the other hand, open-source software enables one to disable or edit those blocklists with a simple patch. It's just an extreme way of making it the default behavior, and therefore making their political statement stronger.
There might be a better way, but I'm not really concerned with this implementation.
catloaf
in reply to comfy • • •catloaf
in reply to Sean Tilley • • •Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌
in reply to Sean Tilley • •catloaf doesn't like this.