Funkwhale is building a new mechanism to filtering out music from Nazis and White Supremacists. In doing so, this opens a can of worms.

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.

  • @noodlejetski@lemm.eeEnglish
    9•23 days ago

    I’m sure people are still free to take the code and make the necessary adjustments if they really need to host a Nazi-friendly instance.

    • Chozo
      5•23 days ago

      Which is an outcome I actually worry about, if they implemented this feature in Funkwhale. A fascist fork of the app existing and having a userbase gives it legitimacy. It immediately sells itself to those people: “Come to our free speech music platform” will bring in a lot of new users, very easily.

      • @noodlejetski@lemm.eeEnglish
        9•23 days ago

        I mean, that’s the freedom you’ve been so concerned about only two posts ago. it’s a similar situation with Gab and Truth.social. they both use Mastodon’s code, but everyone else distances themselves from them.

    • adr1anEnglish
      1•16 days ago

      A fork is desirable. Then we can have antifa hacktivists contributing to that source with malware to scare them out of their dumb political views.