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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Social_Discussion@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Hey everyone, I'm new to Lemmy and just starting to figure this site out. I mainly moved here because of the censorship on Reddit where they didn't publish posts that included the slightest word not allowed by their filter and they removed/blocked lots of content. I wonder if it will be somewhat better here (on the official site it says "Censorship resistant - By hosting your own server, you can be in full control of your content.").

The weird thing I saw with Lemmy was when I wanted to sign-up on the "lemmy.ml" server instance that according to the official Lemmy Servers listing page is a "A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers".

So I thought I try that one when it's from Lemmy's own developers. When I wanted to sign-up it required an application that you needed to fill out with one of the requirements being having to copy a sentence from the link provided which links to some article called "The Principles of Communism" which I thought was very odd for a site to do. I've never seen a site like this promoting some ideology that directly where it's part of the sign-up process to almost pledge to some political or religious ideology.

This seemed very sketchy to me. Does anyone know something about this?

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[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They were free up until 2023

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ml

This part is funny

Employees for the United States Armed Forces regularly misspell emails—suffixed with the .mil TLD—with .ml. In 2013, Dutch internet entrepreneur Johannes Zuurbier took on the .ml TLD. He attempted to contact the United States government about classified information being sent to army.ml and navy.ml in 2014 through Dutch diplomats.[citation needed] The contents of these emails include crew and staff lists, maps and photos of installations, naval inspection reports, and passwords. Emails that were sent to the .ml TLD include the travel itinerary of chief of staff James McConville on a trip to Indonesia in 2023, information about Kurdistan Workers' Party efforts in the United States, and Australian Department of Defence documents detailing issues with Australian F-35s. On 17 July 2023, Zuurbier's contract expired and control was reverted back to the Malian government.

[-] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

This part is funny

I am sorry but you are wrong: This bit is beyond funny.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

It's been speculated they paid for theirs because other sites and at least one instance had their free .ml domains revoked

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago
[-] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Emphasis on speculation, but I found the instance that had its ml domain taken away

Maybe Lemmy.ml had a free domain but they got to keep it because they had it for a longer time. Who knows?

[-] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Amazing. Wish the chinese had caught that first, like they caught the secret CIA websites that allowed them to kill hundreds of spies

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