Submitted 3 years ago by Illyria@lemmy.ml to asklemmy@lemmy.ml
It is fascinating to me that you refer to this site as an app. If you wouldn't mind, I have some questions:
Approximately what year were you born?
What app are you using to access lemmy?
What constitutes an "app" in your mind? Do computers have "apps" or only phones?
As to your question: everything is political :)
Ha, the "what year you were born?" question is pretty funny. I think it's probably accurate that many younger people identify websites as "apps," but software engineers like myself also sometimes do that. It's just a change in the vocabulary that probably doesn't propagate to older folks who aren't in the industry. Although my uncle is in the industry as well, and I think he, too, would balk at the notion of calling this an "app."
I discovered Lemmy on my laptop...but there is a F-droid app for it. That I am using right now
Everything is political. The notion that you can do things and have them not have political consequences and be politically informed is a total falsehood and illusion.
This app is just honest and upfront about its politics, in contrast to something like Reddit which is "apolitical" which just means the admins explicitly support the status quo.
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.
This doesn't explain anything. What an unnecessary anecdote. Everyone can abstain from being too political, including the Lemmy admins
Could you give me an example of something that isn't too political in your eyes?
This reminds me of my favorite quote from Sally Bowles in the play "Caboret" just before Hitler took over Berlin..."it's just politics, it doesn't matter"
It did and it does.
https://www.matterprints.com/journal/community/the-privilege-of-being-non-political/
The ability to choose to be non-political, and to demand conversations or spaces be non-political is evidence of an invisible privilege not accessible by all.
The developers actually do a pretty good job of keeping politics out of the app itself and in the lemmy.ml instance instead, so the title of this post is quite misleading.
One thing people need to understand that lemmy.ml is not inteded to be a generalist flagship instance (like mastodon.social is to Mastodon), even if it's maintained by the lead developers of the project.
The software isn't political, instances can be though
I guess the license is a bit polical though
How exactly is "I'm sharing my code with you so you have to share improvements you make to it back to me" considered political?
How is it not?
Reddit is political as well. Besides the propaganda you see of commodities, services, courses, stores, and other stuff for marketing purposes, Reddit has explicitly banned communities which were growing with political discourse against exploitation and corporate control of society.
There's no such thing as something "not political". If you are indifferent to reality, you are inadvertently allowing oppression, exploitation, discrimination to continue happening. To be consciously political is to criticize the current state of things, study their causes and fight for its solution. Otherwise, what's the point of living, if not to constantly improve our lives collectively?
ADMINS ARE G@Y
I think it's just that the flagship instance yours is not only political, but run by the devs as well. Plus the hard coded word blacklist and whatnot lol
Right wing and free speech instances are merely reactionary since the flagship platform is political when it should be the other way around
The blocklist only removed some slurs that were racist or nasty AF.
Anyone who feels their ability to express themselves is restricted by not having those phrases available should just fuck right off outta here.
That sort of attitude being mainstream is why Lemmy is probably the most divisive piece of Fediverse software out right now.
The blocklist only removed some slurs that were racist or nasty AF.
I literally got censored once for trying to post an article about Ted Cruz being called the b word, because it had the b word in the title.
Right wing and free speech instances
There is more than one?
What is reactionary? And why is it bad?
There is more than one?
Actually not that I know of, just wolfballs.com, but I assume there are far more lemmy instances that I just forgot about
What is reactionary?
Making free-speech instances in response to the main instance
And why is it bad?
A couple reasons, firstly, it solidifies Lemmy's reputation as a platform for leftists, and seconds, it unnecessarily divides and isolates right wing users and instances from most Lemmy users who abide by the mainstream Lemmy perspective.
sexy_peach@feddit.de 3 years ago
Most open-source and small software projects are somewhat political. That is because people need a reason to leave the big companies, for many it is leftism, privacy concerns or a search for more personal freedom. Rightwingers end up here as well, but many also go to their own toxic silos, because they have different end goals.