Karl Fogel

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I *think* what this @FDroidOrg statement is saying is that they blocked an app for political reasons, but reasoning given for the deplatforming is very thin. I wish they'd instead taken the position @ALALibrary took in 1939.

https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html


The argument is apparently: F-Droid dropped Fedilib because Fedilab's app offers a pre-configured *opt-in* list of popular fediverse sites that includes Spinster, which in turn might (note F-Droid didn't actually say it does) allow bad posts.

Srsly?


Karl Fogel at 2019-12-18T16:57:13Z

For example:

Suppose someone were a journalist trying to cover Spinster?

Suppose someone wanted to log in to Spinster in order to *argue* with a position someone else is taking there?

Now it's harder for these people to do so via Fedilab as installed from @FDroidOrg.

Karl Fogel at 2019-12-18T17:19:41Z

Correction to the above: the overall shape of the story is the same, but the details are different (I had tried to reconstruct the facts based on @FDroidOrg's somewhat unclear post). Alex Gleason gives the full story here:


Karl Fogel at 2019-12-18T19:48:44Z