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Free and open source software means you can host and distribute your own racist propaganda platform, it doesn’t mean f-droid has to.
Good for them. F-Droid’s argumentation is solid and they don’t violate freedom 0, because this decision doesn’t affect Gab’s freedom to run their own software.
what even was that about freedom zero? as if freedom zero meant all free software must be accepted in all repositories?? you are still free to run it regardless
Absolute nothingburger.
From F-Droid’s statement (emphasis mine):
We respect Tusky’s decision to block mentioned website; it’s their right to introduce restrictions like these into their software. We also respect Fedilab’s decision not to hardcode a login block; instead they are actively working on making it easier to block certain domains in the app itself and thus giving users more power to moderate which content they’ll see. If people disagree with F-Droid’s decision not to flag Fedilab, a idea is to develop a decentralized tag system based on package IDs which allow third-party servers to share their own warnings with their community.
They’re not blocking any fediverse apps that you can use to connect to any server.
Feel free to use any Lemmy or Mastodon client to connect to any hate-filled instances your hateful little heart desires. If you don’t like that some apps have built-in blocklists, use different apps, or modify them. That’s the beauty of open source.
Do what you want, just don’t expect the rest of the world to amorally do it for you. This is perfectly in keeping with open-source philosophy.
Never heard of gab, checked it out, current #1 top post is hateful racist propaganda about “white genocide” and the great replacement theory.
So yeah, fuck that. Get censored, nazi scum.
It’s the social platform that takes the people that Parlor and “Truth” Social won’t take. Genuine Nazis and conspiracy nuts every which way. It’s bonkers shit.
Yet another open-source software company has turned its back on the principles that drive free software.
I don’t think these guys understand what those principles are.
good
This article is from July 17, 2019, for what it’s worth.
