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cm0002@lemmy.cafe â¨4⊠â¨weeks⊠agoThey do not, Hex and Grad, yes. This is the current homepage of lemmy.ml, nothing indicates them being a Tankie Instance supporting Authoritarian regimes and their misinformation:
ora@lemmy.blahaj.zone â¨4⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
The ML stands for Marxist-Leninist. I recall it being clarified better when I last visited several years ago. âWhat is Lemmy.ml?â is a link that expands on the instance as ânicheâ rather than mainstream.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz â¨4⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
ML stands for Mali, thereâs no TLD for Marxism lol
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨4⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
And thereâs no domain for Team Fortress 2, but lots of people use
.tf
for TF2 focused websites.boonhet@sopuli.xyz â¨4⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
And youâre absolutely free to use it that way if the registry that handles is OK with it, but you just canât expect people to instantly realize that your
.tf
site is a Team Fortress related site based on just the TLD, because the.tf
doesnât officially have anything to do with TF2, that was my point.ora@lemmy.blahaj.zone â¨4⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
No, itâs not a Mali instance. Theyâre using it for something else. You may also notice .io domains are not always based in the Indian Ocean, nor .ly for Libya, .tv for Tumalu, etc.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz â¨4⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Thatâs the official purpose of 2 letter TLDs, like it or not. Some countries have opted to sell them to everyone, but .ml definitely means Mali, not Marxism-Leninism.
Since Mali lets anyone register domains with their TLD, youâre free to use it however you want, but you canât expect everyone to know youâre using it because it also stands for Marxism-Leninism. It might also be a Machine Learning instance!
They do mention their politics in some places but itâs definitely not outright obvious from their usage of the Mali TLD.
JackbyDev@programming.dev â¨4⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Lol. I think there is one for Republican and Democrat though. Which is funny. Or maybe itâs like conservative or something. I donât know. There are so many TLDs now, itâs crazy.
cm0002@lemmy.cafe â¨4⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Thatâs not âliterally advertisingâ, thatâs an Easter egg, a very subtle hint or maybe even âcoded languageâ
In any case, it requires the person encountering it to already have a concept of it and background knowledge to some degree.
This isnât the 90âs/early 2000s anymore where there were only a few TLDs to go around, back then encountering .ml would have lead to a line of questioning like you say.
But not today, today the average user doesnât question the TLD anymore (as long as itâs not one frequently associated with âscamsâ like .xyz) because thereâs just so many of them ranging from .io to .AI to .shop and .network
ora@lemmy.blahaj.zone â¨4⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
As I said earlier, it was advertised. I didnât make it up, it just isnât written there anymore.