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[-] Boforn@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] livus@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 year ago

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

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 year ago

Right. My statement was one of fact, not trying to say it's a bad thing. I'm a Marxist-Leninist as well.

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Hello there comrade! Nice to have you here!

[-] Pili@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year 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.

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Don't you need to be a citizen of a CIS nation to get a .su domain?

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

It depends on the registrar.

[-] Zyratoxx@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I mean, I knew it was a country top level domain but I was told Dessalines intended the "ml" as an abbreviation for "marxist-leninist"

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

That is not true, he has said multiple times it was used because it was free.

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