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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I... have a guide in my instances sidebar explaining those concepts to people.

[–] Dick_Justice 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You cant possibly expect people to take on the heavy onus of glancing slightly to the right. /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You are giving more credit then I normally do. I have just started to assume people can't read at all.

[–] Doodlr 7 points 1 year ago

I'd be so mad at you right now if I could read what you wrote.

[–] ElectroVagrant 1 points 1 year ago

It needs to be a pop-up and pop-under ad to get their attention, then the close button needs to be tiny and in a different part of the window to really keep their attention, and then it needs to loudly read the text of the window contents to make absolutely sure they've gotten the message.

Failing all this the text needs to be animated in an obnoxious way until they put their cursor/finger in the ad space so they really read it in case their audio is muted. /s

[–] grozzle 2 points 1 year ago

You can't assume most users even see the sidebar. It doesn't show up on the Jerboa app.

[–] cloud_punk 1 points 1 year ago

I think I understand a bit more, but could you answer a question for me? If my acct is on lemmy.world and we are defederated from beehaw, does that mean I can't subscribe to their instances? The subscribe pending kinda throws me.