Funkwhale Wants to Filter Out Far-Right Music
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Just ban country music and you've covered like 80% of it.
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Yeah, the UX is historically not great. I'm also pretty sure that the federated social layer is still kind of non-existent at this point. It used to be that you could upload your own music and share it, but you'd never see replies from anybody.
It's like someone took a Grooveshark clone, shoehorned federation into it, and then kind of made some features act like SoundCloud, if you squint. But, they didn't really finish the transition.
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I'm a bit torn on the idea, myself. On one hand, fuck fascists, don't let 'em have an inch. But on the other hand, this does kinda take away a users' freedoms with the software.
Honestly, I think it's fine if it's a plugin or something that you can install at your own discretion or something. Or if it's baked-in, it should be an opt-in setting. I'm of the opinion that the actual software, itself, should be apolitical. It's something I can respect the Lemmy devs for, after all; even though I disagree with their politics, the actual Lemmy code is politically agnostic, and I think that's for the best.
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As a fan of the odd bit of black metal, I would appreciate the 20% being dealt with
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Setup is also huge pain and it has compatibility issues with clients that use the subsonic API. Every step of the way something I needed from it had issues. I gave up running one funkwhale instance for multiple users and instead spun up 4 Navidrome instances. Not only was it easier and more stable it also uses less resources than one funkwhale setup.
As much as I love the idea of funkwhale it's just so far away from usable.
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What exactly is funkwhale? It looks like a federated music platform of some sort?
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@[email protected] OMG roastmaster Sean, where can I subscribe to hear more of this.
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It's basically an open source, federated clone of GrooveShark, which was kind of like Plex but just for music.
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Its open source, the admins can turn it off by reverting the patch. The person who coded it has the final say on what their software does in an open source world if you dont like it you are welcome to fork it. The fork should still be able to connect to the network and interact as it did before.
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At least most nsbm sucks or have names like "ss wehrwulf division 1488".
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And had a way to support artists
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Huh. Well that seems pretty cool
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They have benefitted from and encouraged 'but if you do that you're no diffrent from-' spinelessness.
Their entire gameplan has been to whine and sob and play victim while demanding 'we' march to where they are, while they take two more steps back and whine and sob more at how we're extremists.
So. Fuck 'em.
Their 'compromise' is 'we give them everything, and get nothing in return.'
Show them that they are not welcome or wanted.
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But there is a load of really dodge black metal that is much more cryptic, not being blatant but made by Nazis like Deathspell Omega, Mgla, Drudkh and Winterfyllth. I've been in the scene a long time and been fooled by some of these.
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Somewhat off topic but I was totally convinced that Funkwhale had died so I ditched my pod and moved to Navidrome, I wasn't using federation so I wasn't really the intended audience. I'm glad they are still going though. But personally I've had a better experience with Navidrome with Feishin as a player.
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Oh for sure, there's exceptions to the rule, I've been fooled too. Peste Noir, Drudkh, Deathspell Omega, Burzum all end up on essentials lists, definitely contributes.
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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.
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Are you taking about funkwhale or the right wingers?
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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.
