#Funkwhale will now get content filtering.
The idea is, if music is tagged with a genre the developers of Funkwhale don't like, you wont be able to upload it anymore or you can't listen to it anymore, thats not clear yet. However, I think thats an insanely bad idea.
At first, Funkwhale is a software and you cannot tell how people will use it. If someone decides to run a Funkwhale instance to collect and document networks of nazi musicians, its not exactly the scope of the project. But I'd say its a legit use. This won't be possible anymore.
On the other hand, Funkwhale is open source. People run it on their own infrastructure and are free to change the code. So in case somebody wants to build a Nazi music streaming, they would simply remove the filtering or block access to wikidata.
So the filter is at least useless, maybe even hurtful. What we need are proper moderation tools to help admins to take care for the content hosted on their server. But one of the arguments to build such a system in the Gitlab-Ticket is "save dev time to avoid create of database models, moderation tools" https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/-/issues/2395
Disclaimer: I am a previous member of the steering group and the separation wasn't without hurt feelings, so I might be just personally upset. Let me know what you think!