I discovered severe lapses in how the Tusky project's donations (received via OpenCollective) were being handled. When I reported those t...

I discovered severe lapses in how the Tusky project’s donations (received via OpenCollective) were being handled. When I reported those t…

  • elouboub@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    The people who complain about those in power, sometimes turn out just as bad. These admins probably rail against capitalism, how politicians can’t be trusted, and the like, but then do this kind of stuff.

  • RobotToaster@infosec.pub
    41·
    1 year ago

    An application that has hard coded censorship also has other unethical practices, I’m shocked 🙃

      • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
        2·
        1 year ago

        And don’t most Mastodon instances have those defederated as well? They’re not part of the wider Mastodon community to begin with.

      • RobotToaster@infosec.pub
        0·
        1 year ago

        It’s against the principles of free software to deliberately restrict what a user does with software on their own machine.

    • kspatlas@artemis.camp
      3·
      1 year ago

      I feel like they probably don’t want to be associated with those instances, considering they all seem to be extremist ones.

      • wagesj45@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        They’re certainly shitty instances. They’re free to block them if they want, since you can always just fork the source and remove that bit.

        But I don’t think that the project is associated with any particular instance that it allows you to log in to. They’re taking a definite negative stance. They’re associating themselves, just as anti rather than pro.

        Personally, I think it’s a little silly. Despite the term being overused (and not even being a bad thing usually), its a classic example of the annoying kind of virtue signaling. Doing a silly little thing that makes no difference at all while trying to make yourself look good to peers. It’s like they want credit for taking on the “extremist” instances, by doing a bunch of nothing other than some mild finger waggling.

      • sure@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        One that I know of is that it does not allow you to log in to some instances (but I don’t remember which ones right now)

        If I’m not mistaken, Husky has these restrictions removed