Re: Minds.com

I am not American, but I of course agree with Leland. Freedom of speech is not just a law or a legal principle. It is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that anyone specifically *ought* to provide that right (for example, I do not think that platforms should be forced to

Re: Minds.com

To be clear, I never suggested the FSF is the "free speech foundation". The fact that the FSF (supposedly) supports freedom of speech on the Internet, however, is a claim made on the [1]gnu.org website, not by me, on a page about basic freedoms:

Re: Minds.com

Hi, Ron. Minds attempts decentralization in a few different ways, including ActivityPub and Nostr. It also uses Matrix for messaging, so that users can talk to those that don't use Minds. Minds also attempted to use the Arweave Permaweb, but never clarified how it would benefit

Re: Minds.com

On 21/09/2023 00:27, Valentino Giudice wrote: It attempts at decentralizing, but its attempts are IMHO mostly unsuccessful. What do you mean? seems to indicate that it supports ActivityPub. However, as a centralized

Re: Minds.com

Hmmm, On Thu, 2023-09-21 at 10:40 -0400, Michael McMahon wrote: > Minds could be categorized as a "free speech zone" social network which > are typically popular with fascists so count me out. Poor choice of words perhaps? Freedom of speech is _supposed_ to be one of the founding principles

Re: Minds.com

> Minds could be categorized as a "free speech zone" social network which > are typically popular with fascists so count me out. Fascism and freedom of speech are entirely incompatible and antithetical to each other. It could be true that fascist today use free speech platforms,

Re: Minds.com

I didn't look into it that much, but what you said about licensing sounds right if true. Software freedom is foundational. Freedom is dependent on having the ability to use free software. The message gets very muddy when people mistake the FSF for the Free Speech Foundation or any other sort

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Thank you a lot, Michael, this is quite interesting and something that I should investigate further. Indeed the "friendly-challenge" package uses "friendly-pow", which is no good: [1]https://github.com/FriendlyCaptcha/friendly-challenge/issues/1 59 I still think that Minds can

Re: Minds.com

Minds could be categorized as a "free speech zone" social network which are typically popular with fascists so count me out. The licensing of the minds project is also questionable. It is built on elgg which is GPL-2.0-only [1] so it should probably match. I'm not following through with

Re: Minds.com

Never heard of minds, but Friendly Captcha is deceivingly source available [1]. This is not apparent when you look at their main repository. [1] https://github.com/FriendlyCaptcha/friendly-pow/issues/13 A previous commit [2] is free and it might still work. [2]