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I believe the top level domain, the .ML was reclaimed by the country of Mali recently, who own it. It was just bad luck.
No, it didn’t. Lemmy.ml is running just fine.
Is that what the ML means? I thought that it meant Machine Learning.
All two letter domains are for countries.
Even .tv which is Tuvalu
But what does the ML in this instance mean?
Mali. The country of Mali.
Lemmy is from Mali?
Anyone can register a domain anywhere as long as the country allows it. Lemmy is not from Mali in this case.
But since they're not from Mali, what is the ML supposed to mean?
Nothing, it's just usually cheaper than a .com address
But it bothers me that it has no meaning. It must stand for something.
From my understanding, a pair of letters either stands for something or represents a country. Since Lemmy is not based in Mali, then ML must stand for something.
ML in lemmy.ml stands for Marxist Leninist, I am not joking. The creators and developers of lemmy.ml are pretty left leaning.
I am not joking.
You might not be joking but you are assuming. Do you have a link to a statement by a site admin that says explicitly that is what it stands for? Otherwise you're just speculating, and there are other reasons someone would have chosen .ml besides it standing for that.
Does it mean Machine Learning? Mr. Lemmy? Ms. Lemmy? Mega Lemmy? McCartney Lennon?
@BlameThePeacock @favrion I believe, he asked why developers of lemmy.ml has chosen exactly this domain for server instead of some other
I thought it was for motherland lol with the amount of tankies
If that's the case, I figured it was "Marxist-Leninist", which is what most of them prefer to describe themselves as.
And .com means communist.
Reminds me of the person who said that lemmy was communist because the groups were called communities
@blamethepeacock See? It does stand for something, since it clearly isn't Mali.
Why would Lemmy feel the need to represent a foreign country?
@blamethepeacock No response?
@blamethepeacock All I'm looking for is a conversation.
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.
Thank you. I appreciate your friendly input.
Tankies? Is that a reference?
@favrion @1stTime4MeInMCU tankies is derogatory term of communists who regardless of reality excuse everything that authoritarian governments do. It was coined to describe Stalinists who defended USSR rolling in tanks on Hungary in 1958. They're the mirror image of MAGA cultists who will be the first to defend Trump when he inevitably goes ahead and shoots someone in the middle of 5th Ave.
My 1st interaction with a tankie was a Canadian youtuber who made videos defending North Korea, not satire
I am logged in to lemmy.ml and it seems to run just fine as of now.
I got "bad gateway" a little while ago from my browser bookmark, but I just figured it was temporarily down and didn't think anything of it.
Chiming in from lemmy.ml here
This happens very often here. lemmy.ml isn't reliable and the performance is very bad.
What do you mean it disappeared from your list?
I didn't see it on my drop-down list.
You're posting from it so it seems to be working
The key word is "had."
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
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