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Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by pjc50 »

cousin_it wrote: post #39
glenstein wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To include some important information you left out: It says that sexual harassment is bad and that racism is bad, and using jokes to "ironically" do things like that is also bad.

(deleted, I was overreacting a bit)

Americans come from a country where, in living memory, having a different colour skin removed whole areas of your legal rights. Interracial marriage was banned in several states until roughly the time of the moon landings. This is why Americans are rather touchy about people making light of racism.

Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by encom »

progval wrote: post #45
cousin_it wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(deleted, I was overreacting a bit)

There is a middle ground between "sending people to camps for a wrong joke" and "no one should be held accountable for any of their actions if they claim they are jokes"

A joke is not an action. It can never bring harm to another person.

Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by glenstein »

cousin_it wrote: post #39
glenstein wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To include some important information you left out: It says that sexual harassment is bad and that racism is bad, and using jokes to "ironically" do things like that is also bad.

(deleted, I was overreacting a bit)

>someone else's wrong joke

>punishing people for jokes

Again, we're talking about sexual harassment and racism. It's important not to leave that part out.

Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by topbanana »

JacobSuperslav wrote: post #9

I know this kind of thing might not be very popular on HN, but I like their anti-meritocracy statement: https://funkwhale.audio/en_US/code-of-conduct

> We have an ethical responsibility to refuse to work on software that will negatively impact the well-being of other people.

Except musicians apparently

Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by rglullis »

BRedSox wrote: post #49
fabrixxm wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the same. It's not "who is?", it's "have you a license to do it?". If you have a license to reshare spice girls works, and you want to use funkwhale, well, you can. Nine Inch Nails have CC licensed albums. So "being famous" and "music that is under a CC license" is not mutually exclusive...

I don’t think there is anyone on HN confused on that. I’m sorry if it slipped beyond you but I’m specifically talking music people don’t have permission or the rights to sharing.

It depends on who you are sharing with and the context.

I could setup a server with my music collection and give access to my friends. That is fair-use.

Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by gwillz »

This is great! I used to run a Subsonic server for myself but it kind of fell apart because the licensing in version 6 kind of broke the community around it.

But it looks like this supports the same Subsonic protocol, which is pretty great. It's cool to not only take inspiration from predecessors but to also support and build on the same ecosystem.

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