Comment on Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down

• Ginjutsu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  AFAIK, lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml use it because the ml can also stand for “Marxist-Leninist”, and the two primary maintainers of Lemmy are Marxist-Leninists . Not sure about the others though.

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  • luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It can also definitely stand for Machine Learning which is the first thing that comes to my mind

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    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes but lemmy has nothing to do with Machine Learning.

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    • gelberhut@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, but as discussed several times here and there Lemmy Devs are pro china and anti USA and they admin lemmy.lm. in this case LM stays for marksism Leninism.

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    • hemmes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hey now, what’s with all the logic and stuff. We only allowing jumping to conclusions around these parts, you should know better than that.

      /s

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      • sciawp@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s not jumping to conclusions; it’s actually pretty well-known. The devs and their instance are very open about being Marxist-Leninists.

        I don’t see how machine learning is related to Lemmy in any way

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m going to have to make a copy paste for this:

    .ml stands for Mali.

    .ee stands for Estonia.

    .tv stands for Tuvalu

    Just like .ca stands for Canada.

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    • Madbrad200@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      this is technically true, but it’s not why lemmygrad, ran by full on communists, chose the .ml tld

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      • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Which ironically, is now failing due to the fault of those in power of that TLD. The festive raw needs to be careful with tld’s they choose. ICAAN exists, but it’s obvious that some domain power is delegated and therefore safer TLDs should be chosen

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      • boredtortoise@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Stalinists, not communism

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      • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        .ml was the main Lemmy before .world Most communities were there.

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      • Gork@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m surprised they didn’t use the .su Soviet Union Top Level Domain.

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    • Sentrovasi@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, it stands for Mali, no, it's not why lemmygrad used the domain name. Do you think all the services like Grammarly and Bitly are all Libyan services as well? Because I've got news that may just blow your mind.

      Please stop copy-pasting ignorance.

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    • wings@lemmy.perthchat.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Please don’t make a copy paste for this, smh.

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  • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s not true at all. ML was used as an idiological choice as it’s the only free TLD you can get and you should not have to pay for a domain name as per Lemmy’s creators ideology.

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    • sciawp@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s not true. There are a few other free TLDs. I think five total?

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  • Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    lemmy.ml, what type of drug are you on

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• sciawp@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think it’s because ML is a popular shorthand for ‘Marxist-Leninist’ since they mostly seem to be communist servers

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    .ml stands for Mali.

    .ee stands for Estonia.

    .tv stands for Tuvalu

    Just like .ca stands for Canada.

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    • sciawp@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thanks, I know what it stands for but I am trying to explain why that particular top-level domain was picked for those lemmy instances

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      • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        .ml was the main Lemmy before .world Most communities were there.

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    • EnglishMobster@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You are technically correct, but surely you must know at this point that's not at all how domains are used on the internet. Bit.ly isn't hosted or affiliated with Libya.

      And if you ever doubted that the maintainers of Lemmy are tankies, well have I got a post from you, from the horse's mouth:

      https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/

      https://web.archive.org/web/20230626055233/https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/

      Hey all, longtime Marxist-leninist, recorder of left audiobooks, and megathread shitposter here.

      Posting this in light of a recent one week Reddit ban I earned for shitting on US police, as I'm sure many of us have gotten in recent weeks.

      So I've spent the past few months working on a self hostable, federated, Reddit alternative called Lemmy, and it's pretty much ready to go. Unlike here we'd have ultimate control over all content, and would never have to self censor.

      Obviously as communists, we agitate where the people are, so we should never abandon Reddit entirely, but it's been clear to all of us from day one, that communities like this stand on unsteady ground, and could be banned or quarantined at any moment by the white supremacist Reddit admins. This would be both a backup and a potentially better alternative. Moderation abilities are there, as well as a slur filter.

      Raddle isn't an option obviously since it's run by this arch anti tankie scum, ziq.

      I wanted to ask ppl here if they'd like me to host an instance, and mod all the current mods here.

      The instance that post mentions at the end became Lemmygrad. Lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad are the same people. They chose ".ml" because they are Marxist-Leninists. They first advertised on /r/communism and that post outright states they're Marxist-Leninists.

      Thinking they chose .ml because they really like Mali is absolutely ridiculous.

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      • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A while ago Libya suddenly requires all companies that use .ly domain to have a presence in Libya it have their domain reclaimed by the government. bit.ly (and other internet startups that use .ly domains back then) suddenly found themselves in a precarious position. It was pretty hilarious as .ly TLD was hip back then.

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    • xedrak@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hey, I didn’t quite get it. Can you copy and paste this reply a few times more? Thanks.

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• Aux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So they can support Russia by proxy.

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  • Methylman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lol so one could say they fucked around and have now found out

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• RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m guessing because it’s sort of an alliteration on lemmy?

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  • Blamemeta@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Theyre tankies, thats why.

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• diggit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It was free, and anonymous I guess

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  • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not anonymous. In fact because it’s free it requires more data to prevent someone from acquiring all of the TLDs

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