When political parties are constantly trying to undermine privacy in most of the world with excuses ranging from terrorism to "think of the children", it's hard to pretend it's not political.
That said I don't find "revolt" all that bad. Out of context it's only political if you let it, just like "master" branches aren't a statement about slavery by themselves.
Ok having read the about page, it starts to tell a narrative. It's helpful and gives me a better idea about the motivations behind thebproject, but as a brand name you dont get to force everyone to read your /about when they first see the name Revolt.
But on the specific issue, consider if someone is a proponent for privacy, but isn't sure if the're joining software created by activists they disagree with, maybe the equivalent of the folks behind Gab, for example.
Amateur activism across our political spectrum has been a net-negative in my opinion, so I agree, but privacy has no chosen political party or agenda. In that way, I'd caution you from thinking of it "politically" in terms of camps and more "politically" in terms of policy changes needed that both of our parties object to.
>consider if someone is a proponent for privacy, but isn't sure if the're joining software created by activists they disagree with .. the folks behind Gab
Gab is a hilarious example because it is a non-federating fork of Mastodon.[0][1] This is especially noteworthy because the ActivityPub "Fediverse" is full of antipathy between camps of users who run Mastodon (more Left) and those who instead run Pleroma (more Right) to the point where you can predict a user's politics by the software their homeserver is running. Is this the future of FOSS that we want?
If you support the right of individuals to run social networks, and if you believe in libre software, you have to understand that sometimes people will use the tools you release for free to do things you disagree with.
An analogy: if you're a manufacturer of hammers, you have to accept that someone could use your hammer to commit a murder.
They're marketing to a privacy aware audience which is, unfortunately these days, political to some.