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Will this also affect lemmy.ml? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

The fact that people were registering .ml domains for projects like this is mindboggling. There are many TLDs to pick from without infringing on the terms of use of a country-specific one.

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

    My thoughts exactly. You should not be choosing TLDs that are volatile to upsets like this. Stick with the tried and true .com or .net, or one of the new TLDs that are not bound to a nation (unless you can comply with the stipulations) or particular type of organization.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Do people not remember back in the 2010s when bit.ly was the main link shortener used everywhere on the internet, and then Ghadafi, the then dictator of Libya, declared the site to be incompatible with Muslin decency norms because it was used for porn? And then all bit.ly links were just dead links?

    How many times do we have to learn this lesson? Domain name hacks are fun but just not worth it. And in 2023, now we have all the new TLDs. This was a dumb decision

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

    but ML also can stand for Marxist Leninist and im sure has been the the way it was read by most early adopters

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

    The official and authorized use for the TLD is an association with Mali. It doesn't matter what hip new meaning us internet dweebs want to assign to it.

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    • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) 
    $ whois lemmy.ml
WHOIS lookup for LEMMY.ML can temporarily not be answered. Please try again.
ERROR: domain not found:
$

    But it's still in my DNS cache

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

    Well, this is just weird. When I was migrating from Reddit to this fediverse world I chose .ml and thought it was short for "machine learning" which seemed as a cool domain for me at the time.

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

    No, it's Mali.

    The rumour is that lemmy devs chose it to mean "marxist leninist" but I think it's more likely they wanted a free domain name.

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

    The rumor is fake, the devs have said it multiple times. If they would have wanted to do some funny Marxism meme they would have used .su

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

    Maybe they didn't choose it for that, but to be fair they are definitely and admittedly Marxist-Leninists

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

    Yes, as there are plenty of other developers who are openly liberals or some other flavour of capitalism. You don't need to agree with the developers political choices all the time to use their software.

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  • [–] -4 points 3 years ago

    Yeah they are, so if they did choose .ml for that reason they would have no problem admitting it also. So it's pretty clear that they just wanted a free domain.

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