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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[–] queermunist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The reason the slave trade isn’t a thing anymore is because the US/UK-led global empire decided to collectively abolish it in the first place.

That's really what you think, huh? They just abolished slavery because they decided to? For what? Because they're so nice? lol

[–] baalzephon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They just abolished slavery because they decided to? For what?

Does the motive matter that much? It was the result of US/European abolitionist movements' success, who ended the practice within their respective empires, and which eventually extended into a global ban. The point is that the practice was banned & ended worldwide.

Reformist movements don't and can't exist under CCP rule period. An anti-exploitation movement in China would be crushed immediately, if it were even allowed to develop at all.