Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Not just a patch, you also have to set up the build chain to compile it.
Ah yes, I forgot about that (I've mostly been using scripting-langage web apps)