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What happened to Lemmy ML? It had disappeared from my list and I had to log in again. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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Did I get punished for saying something wrong? Did it get an update?

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[–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 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.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    All two letter domains are for countries.

    Even .tv which is Tuvalu

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  • [+] [S] -7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    But what does the ML in this instance mean?

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Mali. The country of Mali.

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  • [+] [S] -9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Lemmy is from Mali?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Anyone can register a domain anywhere as long as the country allows it. Lemmy is not from Mali in this case.

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  • [–] [S] -4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    But since they're not from Mali, what is the ML supposed to mean?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Nothing, it's just usually cheaper than a .com address

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  • [–] [S] -5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    But it bothers me that it has no meaning. It must stand for something.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    ML in lemmy.ml stands for Marxist Leninist, I am not joking. The creators and developers of lemmy.ml are pretty left leaning.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    @blamethepeacock No response?

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Tankies? Is that a reference?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    @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

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