Comment on Why this app is so political?
SloppilyFloss@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
The English writer Wells went to the Soviet Union a few years ago and visited Maxim Gorky, a great writer who is gone today. He proposed the creation of a literary club from which politics would be excluded, for, to his mind, literature is literature and politics is politics. Gorky and his friends, it seems, began to laugh and Wells was annoyed. The fact is Wells saw the writer as being outside of society, while Gorky and his friends knew full well that it just is not so in life, where, in truth, all things are linked together—whether we like it or not.
gpio@feddit.de 2 years ago
This doesn't explain anything. What an unnecessary anecdote. Everyone can abstain from being too political, including the Lemmy admins
SloppilyFloss@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Could you give me an example of something that isn't too political in your eyes?
gpio@feddit.de 2 years ago
The PeerTube network. The organization behind it, Framasoft, doesn't push radical views on its users. And, more importantly, the instance of the developers (framatube.org) is nowhere near being the center of the network, while lemmy.ml is the focal point of lemmy. The admins of lemmy have the responsibility to not be too political as the whole network relies on this server.