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Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music (wedistribute.org)
submitted 1 week ago by deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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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[โ€“] deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We've seen this happen a lot with Mastodon instances, where people have various beefs and disagreements, and it sometimes results in people advocating everyone blocks an instance regardless of what actually happened. Unfortunately, people are more likely to hit the block-button based on hearsay than they are to do research on whether the instance is actually a bad actor.

It gets super ugly sometimes, and has been abused in the past.

[โ€“] frank@frank.casa 1 points 4 days ago

And I have seen block lists where most of the stuff is toxic and should be blocked, but then mixed in there are people who pissed off the person maintaining the block list, usually over some petty dispute or the fact that they voted for the wrong guy in the last election. Unfortunately a lot of these distributed block lists wind up becoming the maintainer's personal weapon against enemies.