Too many people are confusing the two. Whenever lemmy.ml or its devs do something stupid, people go “Lemmy is getting worse and worse,” or “I’m leaving Lemmy,” or worse, “I’m leaving for Beehaw.”

If you’re using Beehaw, then you’re using Lemmy. Lemmy is the software these instances run on. If you don’t like lemmy.ml, join another instances that have rules that match your philosophy. Some instance hosts authoritarian or fascist shit? Turn to another Lemmy instance. Lemmy.ml is not even the biggest instance. People who just joined and are unfamiliar with the platform will just think the entire Lemmyverse is run by autocratic admins if we don’t get our terminology right.

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    Just out of curiosity, what did the devs do that was stupid?

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      The devs hold extreme political views. They are on board with the Tiananmen Square massacre being necessary and shit like that. Like this post says though, there are plenty of instances that are totally run by normal people. Additionally, the Lemmy server code is open source, so that helps to ensure that it isn’t doing anything nefarious behind-the-scenes.

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        Exactly. My instance is run by a normal guy. I mean, he’s a Chief Information Security Officer and none of those guys are REALLY normal, but still.

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        Damn, so they’re not only tankies, but the dumbest kind of tankies. If you’re going to simp for authoritarian regimes with red flags, at least don’t defend the ones that are actively privatizing public sectors of the economy and dismantling whatever nominal socialism there actually exists.

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      https://lemmy.ml/post/1167199

      More details in the link above, here is the introduction:

      "My concern is that users are being banned and content is being removed on lemmy.ml citing a rule that is not publicly stated anywhere that I have seen.

      Moderators of lemmy.ml are removing posts and comments which are critical of the Chinese government and are banning their authors."

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      deleted by creator

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        Kbin and Lemmy are both based on ActivityPub, but they don’t use each other.

        I don’t think the drama has been only around BeeHaw, the existence of Kbin itself is mostly because of the Lemmy devs being holocaust deniers, believing in “white genocide”, and stuff like that. I also wasn’t convinced at some point until I was pointed at the receipts, see the “Read right here” comment on this post: https://lemmy.world/comment/562635

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          Am I missing something? They’re specifically saying the opposite of what you said - that the Holocaust happened and that white genocide isn’t real. The statement “Are you a white genocide denier?” is mockery, not an actual inquiry.

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            Oh, right. So, they’re Uyghur genocide deniers. And North Korea supporters too apparently. Which… I mean… isn’t much better.

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              That part does seem to be true, and yeah, it’s not great. As far as I can tell, though, nothing about their ideology can really affect Lemmy. If it wasn’t open source, or was flooded with ads to monetize it, I would probably be in the anti-lemmy camp. But (so far) that’s not the case, and as long as that remains true, I don’t see much of a problem with the platform as a whole.

              Ironically, Lemmy being decentralized like it is is pretty antifascist. Not gonna try to parse out how fascist sympathizers justified that in their world view, but I’m not complaining.

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                Yeah, I haven’t read to much into the history of the developers, other than a lengthy summary of posts that someone posted a few days ago. But he seems to be strongly anti-censorship, which would have to be a modified form of fascism.

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                Yeah, that’s fair. I’m staying on Lemmy following the same line of thinking; but I cancelled my monthly donation to them, thinking it would sure be swell if they ran out of money and have to transfer the reins of the project to other people, at which point I’d donate again.

                And if they don’t and Lemmy just dies because of the lack of funds because of who they are, I’m thinking it’s not the end of the world either, because there’s Kbin to take over that’s awfully similar anyway.

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              I’m surprised you people are still carrying the torch for the “uigher genocide” story when the west that was propagandizing using it dropped it entirely

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      Source: https://kbin.social/m/lemmyworld@lemmy.world/t/47012/-/comment/196579

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      Here is one of the Lemmy devs denying that the Uyghur genocide in China is happening:

      https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/xq49ct/deleted_by_user/iq954mu/

      “The Uyghur genocide is as real as white genocide.”

      Here they are again denying it:

      https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/xq49ct/deleted_by_user/iq951cv/

      “The holocaust was a genocide that actually happened, with all the evidence that goes along with it. There is no Uyghur genocide.”

      “Do you believe in anything as soon as the word “genocide” gets attached to it? What about “white genocide”? Are you a white genocide denier?”

      And just so nobody can deny that parentis_shotgun is a Lemmy dev: -

      “I’m one of the devs of Lemmy” https://i.imgur.com/5kp9BP0.png

      Direct links to the posts will not work but still exist on the user’s profile page: https://old.reddit.com/user/parentis_shotgun/ - hold PgDn until comments stop loading then Control+F. In fact feel free to peruse their history in general - it’s quite interesting.

      One of my favorite posts is their defense of the government of North Korea in /r/AskTankies: https://old.reddit.com/r/asktankies/comments/tb1836/okay_but_dprk_seriously/i04d1wu/

      Now ask yourself why would someone who is not a Red Fascist Tankie piece of shit be answering questions on behalf of Tankies in /r/AskTankies while defending a totalitarian regime? Is it… perhaps because they’re in support of such a regime because they are in fact a Tankie piece of shit?