@rimu Hehe - I tried to find that post on Feddit.online, but that instance is blocked.

He also posted it over here: https://sh.itjust.works/post/59806906

I told him it was either (a) a new feature you were testing, or (b) an option you have turned on.

IMO - I wasn't certain why he thought it was a big deal... IMO, of you wanted to, you could actually classify as many domains as you want for whatever reason. (I think some left sites could be classified for propaganda, but I can tend to figure that stuff out myself...)

@rimu

So, these are 3000 PieFed sites launched that include organizations promoting terrorist propaganda from organizations like Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, ISIL, and politicized news outlets like Al Jazeera, Breitbart, Fox, and NPR?

I'm almost certain I read that wrong lolz.

Personally, and to avoid the kinds of reactionary outbursts that resulted in the Tusky Fediverse client being briefly removed from the Google PlayStore with it's ratings plummeting from 5's to 2's for hard-coding itself as "Crippleware" while falsely promoting itself as "Free Open Source Software" (and spawning a legion of Chinese forks with the blacklists removed in the PlayStore), I have to question any decision of blaming the software for political weaponization when the software itself has nothing to do with how and in what way any particular individual chooses to say something through it.

That would be like blaming Toyota for the death of a child on a bicycle instead of the drunk miscreant who ran the child over while driving that vehicle.

Conversely, the choice of developers to decide who should be suitable, even permissable, to deploy such software might imply that such software is not in fact free, but rather, an extension of proprietary influences - something that the Fediverse itself is antithetical to - we already have too much corporate injection of content control by the perpetrators with ownership and special interests in the deprecated, proprietary and monolithic silo space in the likes of Faceplant, Twatter, InstaSPAM, Amazon (Twitch) and others; we cannot afford to be that "pot calling the kettle black".

The Fediverse is Supposed to be comprised of software that is free - free as in free from the vagaries of those who would whimsically choose what its users are permitted to see and engage out of the box...

The whole reason for the embodiment of its existence, the Fediverse is the antithesis of that industrial politic.

It's one thing for developers to recommend and urge adopters to observe, the things they endear and reject that which they abhor, yet quite another to overtly restrict the freedoms that users seek to ingest in terms of information of any kind.

It's one thing for administrators that have adopted a policy of moderation to enforce for, and impose upon, their respective user base (who similarly are free to choose having accounts elsewhere), and yet quite another for the software itself to be released as #crippleware, circumventing those choices surrounding the suitability that each particular operator and participant has in their collective and individual rights with respect to the the freedoms which they they are endowed with to decide for themselves what they're actually allowed to consume.

That despicable iron curtain ultimately vaporized, under Gorbachev's tenure, meeting with its final demise on Christmas Day 1991, when the Soviet Union abruptly ceased to exist; on Christmas Day 1989, with the demise of Nikolae and Elena Ceaușescu; when the people of East and West Germany together brought down Erich Honecker's physical wall of partition on 09 November, 1989; and when Lech Wałęsa became President for Solidarność in 1990.

Freedom means just that. Without abridgement or occlusion. That is the spirit and philosophy of FOSS and the oxygen flowing through the arteries of the Fediverse.

@rimu

People want to find fights to fight.