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PSA: Lemmy.ml is not Lemmy (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by concrete_baby@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[-] ritswd@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] abuttandahalf@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

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

[-] kabe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This isn't just a news story that lasted a few months and then went away.

It's hard for international news sources to get accurate information of what's going on in the Xinjiang area thanks to the CCP's military police controlling the region, but there's still been a steady drip of information that clearly shows that the Uyghur population are being oppressed and their culture being stamped out.

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/04/887239225/china-suppression-of-uighur-minorities-meets-u-n-definition-of-genocide-report-s

https://web.archive.org/web/20201024021902/https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/43-2/SDIR/news-release/10903199

https://theintercept.com/2021/02/03/intercepted-china-uyghur-muslim-surveillance-police/

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/09/asia/china-uyghurs-xinjiang-genocide-report-intl-hnk/index.html

https://theintercept.com/2023/04/21/hikvision-leaked-tape-uyghur-/

[-] Ech@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] ritswd@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] dot20@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

They're getting external funding: https://nlnet.nl/project/Lemmy/index.html

[-] ritswd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they get paid depending on the features they deliver; which may or may not be what the community needs, particularly as time-sensitive issues get discovered. Also, what they get paid amounts to below minimum wage. They explain it in a bit more detail here: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-06-17_-_Update_from_Lemmy_after_the_Reddit_blackout

So, very different from donations, which come reliably periodically with no strings attached, and can scale very well as usage grows.