The long-dormant Funkwhale project is still alive and in active development, with an impending 2.0 release predicted to land soon. Recently, the project posted an update regarding a new initiative for the platform: filtering fascists off the network.
Given the current political climate, we want to talk about making Funkwhale more actively involved in the fight against far-right ideologies.
To achieve this, we’re developing a filter to remove all far-right-associated artists from the network. Since anti-fascism is not optional in our community, this filter will be hardcoded into our codebase, preventing right-wing extremists from using Funkwhale.
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