Alt: It redirects to a Wired article about Elon Musk doing the Nazi salute
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
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I'm assuming that's been there for a while since this was topical six months ago.
Anyway, while I am no fan of Musk or the site formerly known as Twitter, I think this is a bad thing. The author's political views have been prioritised over users' abilities to use the site; even if someone wanted to monitor X users in a way lib.rs approved of they couldn't get help from the site to do this.
I think lib.rs has pulled stunts like this before, which is why crates.rs is usually recommended instead.
lib.rs has always been more opinionated, because it isn't an official project. I imagine, those who look for opinionated will have no problem with this. It certainly made me like the site more.
Everything on the internet is shaped by political views. I don’t understand this take at all. All of the internet projects started as defense projects run by people that believed information should be shared and were taken over to become surveillance institutions. The notion that someone should run a free website indexing all rust crates is itself greatly informed by the politics surrounding FOSS and open information. How you respond to the paradox of tolerance is deeply political. We just happen to fall of different sides of the issue so I have no qualms calling it out.
Lib.rs could call it out and still return results for the search. Having said that, you can still view https://lib.rs/keywords/twitter or https://lib.rs/search?q=%22twitter%22 without any commentary, so it's workaroundable (or inconsistent).
Ohh, boohoohoo, what are you gong to do, cancel your lib.rs subscription?
I don't have a view on this particular case, but "calling it out" whilst still functioning effectively as normal is essentially a strongly-worded letter. F, and I can't stress this enough, that. Protest cannot be subdued by convenience.
There is a difference between the influence and reflection of politics in everything we do, and an actively politically motivated action. Not that the latter is a bad thing.