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.

  • _edge@discuss.tchncs.de
    141·
    1 day ago

    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.

    • frozenspinach@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      20 hours ago

      Yeah I like being able to opt-in to a specific block list, or having it enabled by default but individual instances can disable it (more to neutralize bad faith arguments from trolls who want to normalize nazism), even though I want it effectively banned.

    • comfy@lemmy.ml
      9·
      1 day ago

      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@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        Not just a patch, you also have to set up the build chain to compile it.

        • comfy@lemmy.ml
          4·
          1 day ago

          Ah yes, I forgot about that (I’ve mostly been using scripting-langage web apps)