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.
I don’t think that’s particularly confusing. It simply states that Lemmy.ml is just a part of Lemmy, they are not the same thing.
Then I’d propose ‘Lemmy.ml is ONE OF A NUMBER of instances running on the Lemmy platform’.
As I said, statements are not confusing to people who understand them - but they are confusing for outsiders.
For people who are not familiar of the concept, The title “Lemmy.ml is not Lemmy” sounds like “Electric cars are not cars”.
A less confusing title could be “Lemmy.ml does not represent all of Lemmy”.
But Electric Cars ARE cars!!!
You state simply: Lemmy.ml is just a part of Lemmy.
However, the title states: Lemmy.ml is not Lemmy
FYI also, not many people understand PSA.