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.
Comment on Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down
qwamqwamqwam@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoCommunists 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.
ilmagico@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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!
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.
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.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
TIL Lemmy was created by M. Bison.