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.

  • beleza pura@lemmy.eco.br
    276·
    3 days ago

    they aren’t controlling what you do, though. they’re just refusing to enable far-right content. software isn’t a natural right that is taken away when someone refuses to help you do what you want. it is a fruit of labor that enables you to do something you wouldn’t be able to do otherwise

    • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.comEnglish
      711·
      3 days ago

      Right, but for them to do so requires a level of monitoring what you use and open piece of software for, which is unacceptable to me. If you had an old style mp3 player that refused to play certain songs it would be seen as broken at best. If that selection of songs got updated at the discretion of some third party you start walking into ministry of truth territory.

      This is different from something like YouTube or whatever hosted service refusing to platform content, this would cross into directly controlling personal consumption by forced removal. We call it bad when people start banning books, but it’s ok so long as it’s our person selecting the bans?

      The existence of Mien Kamph in a library’s collection doesn’t make the librarian a Nazi, and it doesn’t force the content onto the public.

      • frozenspinach@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        that refused to play certain songs

        Nazism songs.

        The existence of Mien Kamph in a library’s collection doesn’t make the librarian a Nazi,

        No but 100 copies of back issues of “Being A Nazi In 2025 The Magazine” probably would, and the present case is more like the latter.