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.
They do support Communist China’s repression and ethnic cleaning of Muslim regions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide#:~:text=Beginning in 2014%2C the Chinese,legal process in internment camps.
They’ll shout that somehow the West forced them to do it. And it is all the west or the United States fault. They never accept that they do anything bad.