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
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    10 hours 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
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      7 hours ago

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