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I fail to see how it’s even possible for an open source project to dictate what content is acceptable. Also, the entire project is contrary to rms’ FOSS goals (for any purpose), other than being completely ineffective. I can understand the need for agency and contribution to whatever resistance can be mustered, but this is larping.

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Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Reeks of bullshit ass slippery slope censorship to me.

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comfy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Also, the entire idea is contrary to rms’ FOSS goals

Perhaps, and I don’t see how that’s a problem. Saint IGNUcius isn’t the divine dictator of FOSS. The original Funkwhale announcement’s author makes it clear at the end that they don’t hold freedom-as-an-end-goal (liberalism) as their ideology.

LARP

Not LA nor RP, my friend.

As you hinted, a determined admin can disable the blocklist, it probably isn’t too technical to patch, but this makes a clear statement, which if you’ve seen any right-leaning tech forums, has a real impact on them (see their discussions on Firefox and Rust, or better yet, don’t).

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- zecg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s not even liberalism, it’s pragmatism. It’s simultaneously giving software as a commons and trying to restrict it, an extension of culture wars that’s so ineffective it gives the other side an easy win once they set up chudwhale as a scripts that forks the latest codebase but with no blocklist and a pepe mascot. Just time unspooling. I might be depressed.
  
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  - comfy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I wouldn’t get too depressed about it, it would just be another niche bit of alt-tech if it were anything other than completely neutral. I can’t think of a case when an anti-left fork of a software was memorable as a self-hostable tool. The closest I can think of is Gab, which hardly qualifies, nor does it hold a torch to Mastodon.
    
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    deadsuperhero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Technically, SoapBox and Rebased were forks of the Mastodon frontend and Pleroma backend by an alt-right dev that found some level of success in the alt-right part of the Fediverse. So, it’s not completely unheard of.
    
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