Comment on Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down
sciawp@lemm.ee 1 year agoI think it’s because ML is a popular shorthand for ‘Marxist-Leninist’ since they mostly seem to be communist servers
Comment on Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down
sciawp@lemm.ee 1 year agoI think it’s because ML is a popular shorthand for ‘Marxist-Leninist’ since they mostly seem to be communist servers
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 year ago
.ml stands for Mali.
.ee stands for Estonia.
.tv stands for Tuvalu
Just like .ca stands for Canada.
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
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 year ago
.ml was the main Lemmy before .world Most communities were there.
sciawp@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Thats not a rebuttal. The .ml instance is run by Marxist-Leninists
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/
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.
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.
sciawp@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’ve never felt that country TLDs were worth using and this has only cemented that opinion for me
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.