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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[–] porkins@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

[–] BenHouston@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] ZheSquirrel@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Fisch@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ZheSquirrel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Fisch@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Leninist. Marxist Leninist is largely an oxymoron as Lenin just sort of ignored a lot of core things Marx discussed. Specifically going against many of them. There are many different Marxism derived ideologies that aren't ML and don't sympathize or apologize for the atrocities of ML or capitalist regimes. Please don't lump them all together.

As far as Leninist go. I agree with you 💯% though.

[–] Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

When it comes to physics Einstein has yet to be proven wrong for just about anything. When it came to politics and human nature. Einstein was not known to be any great judge. And even then. That's feinting praise. Einstein knew how to throw shade.