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They 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:

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ora@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The ML stands for Marxist-Leninist. I recall it being clarified better when I last visited several years ago. “What is Lemmy.ml?” is a link that expands on the instance as “niche” rather than mainstream.

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- boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  ML stands for Mali, there’s no TLD for Marxism lol
  
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  - ora@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    No, it’s not a Mali instance. They’re 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.
    
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    boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    That’s 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, you’re free to use it however you want, but you can’t expect everyone to know you’re 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 it’s definitely not outright obvious from their usage of the Mali TLD.
    
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  - eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    And there’s no domain for Team Fortress 2, but lots of people use .tf for TF2 focused websites.
    
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    boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    And you’re absolutely free to use it that way if the registry that handles is OK with it, but you just can’t expect people to instantly realize that your .tf site is a Team Fortress related site based on just the TLD, because the .tf doesn’t officially have anything to do with TF2, that was my point.
    
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  - JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Lol. I think there is one for Republican and Democrat though. Which is funny. Or maybe it’s like conservative or something. I don’t know. There are so many TLDs now, it’s crazy.
    
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- cm0002@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That’s not “literally advertising”, that’s an Easter egg, a very subtle hint or maybe even “coded language”
  
  In any case, it requires the person encountering it to already have a concept of it and background knowledge to some degree.
  
  This isn’t the 90’s/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 doesn’t question the TLD anymore (as long as it’s not one frequently associated with “scams” like .xyz) because there’s just so many of them ranging from .io to .AI to .shop and .network
  
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  - ora@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    As I said earlier, it was advertised. I didn’t make it up, it just isn’t written there anymore.
    
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