"This isn’t so much of an issue for established artists producing studio releases, but it does undermine Funkwhale’s long-underserved secondary community: independent musicians on the Fediverse. While producing MusicBrainz data for a track isn’t necessarily hard, it can be extremely time-consuming, and brings friction to a simple process like uploading your own music."
@news, 2025
https://wedistribute.org/2025/02/funkwhale-filter/
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Once again, devs are hard-coding political filtering into apps. This might seem reasonable given the ideologies being targeted, but as I said back in 2019;
"... in the long term, it starts to normalize the idea that its OK to use the roles of developer, engineer, or hosting provider, to police other people’s politics."
https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/ethical-technology-and-political
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This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
