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.

  • comfy@lemmy.ml
    10·
    3 days 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
      5·
      2 days ago

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

      • comfy@lemmy.ml
        4·
        2 days ago

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