PSA: Lemmy.ml is not Lemmy
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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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12Y

Why, what’s wrong with lemmy.ml? Can someone eli5 me?

My account actually lives there but I also made a lemmy world one.

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OP is annoyed because lemmy.ml devs are left-leaning and don’t encourage bombing muslim countries, killing gays or locking black people in areas abandoned by the government.

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12Y

In the lead developer’s GitHub, he sympathizes with Marxism including those that committed atrocities.. He apparently censors lemmy.ml with this in mind. Since it is open source though, I can trust that other instances might be better maintained. There is no way I’ll use any personal information in my signup because this all probably is going to China.

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22Y

my signup because this all probably is going to China.

China is sophisticated enough that it can vacuum up all the information it wants about without any involvement of a Lemmy.lm admin.

Squirrel
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-12Y

Oh the ml in lemmy.ml is Marxist lenonist. That makes a lot of sense actually

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12Y

You literally just made that up. I’m pretty sure they said at some point that they chose this simply cause its free.

Squirrel
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12Y

I was wrong, and it was a guess using context clues from the post I was replying too.

I didn’t “make it up”, I was just incorrect.

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22Y

I just get kinda pissed off at comments like that because I’ve been using lemmy for like 3 years now and they’ve never done something wrong but now there are some people that just say stuff about them that’s not even true. Your comment wasn’t the first like that after all.

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02Y

Well, how do you feel about the Chinese government and the North Korean one? Good? Hopeful they expand? They do.

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12Y

Hi friend! I’m not sure how this is possibly related to my question. But thank you anyway.

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02Y

They prevent incoming traffic from kbin. Sp, only leach kbin’s contents, but not sharing back.

Some users accused developers as being tankies. Not sure how true this is.

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02Y

Oh that’s not good. That goes against the spirit of federation. I wonder what their reasons are.

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12Y

Nobody knows for sure, but my guess is they blocked any request with “Bot” in the header, and blocked the “KbinBot” by accident.

Just a guess though.

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