So all I have to do to fuck with Funkwhale users is tag some popular artists on a different site?

Not just a patch, you also have to set up the build chain to compile it.

https://github.com/BasixKOR/awesome-activitypub?tab=readme-ov-file#services

Are you talking about search engines or browser rendering engines? For search, searxng already exists. A decentralized browser rendering engine doesn’t really make sense, since it’s just software that runs locally.

You say that, but they’re already here. I see completely automated commercial spam posts every few days. And we all know there’s already political agenda-pushers. Hell, Lemmy was created by some.

Are you new to interacting with other humans too? Because a response like this is just solidifying the case against you.

Creating new accounts after being banned is usually against the rules. Why were you banned in the first place? Maybe take it up with the admins, we can’t do anything here.

Tell that to the person I replied to, not me, because they didn’t say anything about talking about piracy.

Whether or not it’s moral or ethical is separate from it being legal, and it’s definitely illegal (in the US).

Script kiddies have been a thing since… well, since there’s been scripts and kids.