- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.world
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 thought funkwhale was dead. Well thats neat.
Also I think it’ll be pretty interesting what they deem as alt-right. Lotta country music’s gonna get banned.
i think they’re only banning explicitly nazi and ws shit
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)
So all I have to do to fuck with Funkwhale users is tag some popular artists on a different site?
It’s like 6 or 7 tags that all have the word “nazi” or “white power” in the tag. As long as Sam Hunt tracks are not being encoded that way he should be good.
is it the app like lemmy or the servers moderated by diff people
Servers are hosted and operated by different admins.
@deadsuperhero Laughing in MONO 🔊
Yeah, I don’t even know how you would do that but if a platform I’m hosting and managing tries to tell me what content is or isn’t permissable it’s going in the bin.
Don’t need some big brother crap on my system controlling what I do with my hardware.
tell me what content is or isn’t permissable
Nazism being the content
it’s going in the bin
oh no! anyway.
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
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.
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.
