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[–] ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (29 children)

I believe the top level domain, the .ML was reclaimed by the country of Mali recently, who own it. It was just bad luck.

[–] favrion@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (27 children)

Is that what the ML means? I thought that it meant Machine Learning.

[–] 1stTime4MeInMCU@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I thought it was for motherland lol with the amount of tankies

[–] inexplicablehaddock@lemmy.loungerat.io 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If that's the case, I figured it was "Marxist-Leninist", which is what most of them prefer to describe themselves as.

[–] ikiru@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of the person who said that lemmy was communist because the groups were called communities

[–] favrion@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@blamethepeacock See? It does stand for something, since it clearly isn't Mali.

[–] favrion@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would Lemmy feel the need to represent a foreign country?

[–] favrion@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@blamethepeacock No response?

[–] favrion@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@blamethepeacock All I'm looking for is a conversation.

[–] 133arc585@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're not just looking for conversation.

Unless you get a response from the site admins, anyone's answer is pure speculation. No one is going to be able to say, definitively, why .ml was chosen, except the site admins.

My theory is: .ml domains used to be offered for free. So they made lemmy.ml for free, as it was just a toy project. Then, they upgraded to the paid .ml domain (which is how they managed to avoid the recent free .ml purge).

The "its Marxism-Leninism" could be true, but unless you get an answer from a site admin, everyone asserting that it's true is talking out of their ass. They don't know any more than you or I know.

[–] favrion@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you. I appreciate your friendly input.

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