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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[–] abuttandahalf@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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-/