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.
I can see where reasonable people could have a difference of opinion about whether literature can be apolitical. At least Wells wasn’t walking into an existing political club in order to object to all of the political talk.
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.
Peertube has a massive neo Nazi problem because all the far rights that got banned from YouTube moved there. People have been complaining about that for ages.
I can see where reasonable people could have a difference of opinion about whether literature can be apolitical. At least Wells wasn’t walking into an existing political club in order to object to all of the political talk.
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?
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.
Peertube has a massive neo Nazi problem because all the far rights that got banned from YouTube moved there. People have been complaining about that for ages.