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

const_void@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• qwamqwamqwam@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Communists try not to let idealism get in the way of practicality challenge(impossible)

  /s, it stands for Marxist/Leninist apparently. But yeah, this is why novelty domain suffixes are novelties.

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  • hyperhopper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It was totally possible to see coming. The .ml domain deal and its expiration was known far in advance and I’ve been seeing posts about it for months.

    This is 100% incompetence on whoever set up the site.

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    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lemmy was started in 2019. And before the Reddit meltdown, it was more a bunch of very nerdy friends for whom a server going down was Tuesday.

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      • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        TIL Lemmy was created by M. Bison.

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  • ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Interesting … I always wondered why the .ml. In my trade ML is mostly used to mean “machine learning”, aka AI, but it didn’t seem fitting here.

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  • GONADS125@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No that’s not true… .ml is the TLD for Mali and lemmy.ml selected it because it was free… This claim you’re making is like people claiming AC/DC stands for anti-christ devil-child.

    With that said, they did censor anti-china rhetoric, had many pro-china trolls/brainwashed users, and started censoring words, including “bitch.” So I’m not defending the instance. But this claim about what .ml means is just blatantly false! It’s a country’s TLD!

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• ryannathans@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Free

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  • Photographer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Considering the cost to host servers and develop both the backend and the Jerboa app, I dont think $10 a year on a .org would have ended the project?

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    • ryannathans@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah so would have been a goad investment for ten bucks to keep the instance up

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      • Photographer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        the lemmy.ml instance is run by the devs though and lemmygrad is closely connected to it

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• QZM@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Always thought it’s a play on machine learning, but I’m most probably wrong.

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  • Photographer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Many people said it was because “Marxist Leninist”

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