Lib.rs has previously been editorializing the crates within the search algorithm on their site based on their own personal preference. However, they recently have taken it a step too far in labeling the bitcoin repo as unmaintained despite active development taking place for the past several years. Several others have also taken similar actions.
on the one hand, I completely agree with the maintainers stance here:
I think there are whole fields that don’t deserve to be treated seriously, and it’s a good thing to discriminate against them, e.g. homeopathy and astrology. I would expect a medicine-oriented website to openly warn its readers that homeopathy is a made-up pseudoscience, even if the firm believers in homeopathy felt this is inflammatory, and people selling sugar pills were upset about their reputation being tarnished.
but I do not agree with disinformation. Modifying a package to state it’s deprecated is slimy and underhanded. You’ve already put warnings up everywhere. You do not need to resort to tactics like this.
disinformation is what got the world into the shitty state it’s in. if you spread disinformation you’re no better than the cryptoscammers that do the same.
