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

• 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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    • sciawp@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thats not a rebuttal. The .ml instance is run by Marxist-Leninists

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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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    • 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

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      • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It was doubly hilarious when the US was at war with Libya, yet the white house spokesperson and us politicians were still tweeting using bit.ly and ow.ly url shorteners.

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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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