Fediverse @lemmy.ml favrion @lemmy.ml 1 yr. ago

What happened to Lemmy ML? It had disappeared from my list and I had to log in again.

Did I get punished for saying something wrong? Did it get an update?

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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
  
  @BlameThePeacock @favrion 🥴 since when is California a country?
  
  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.
  
  @BlameThePeacock @favrion I believe, he asked why developers of lemmy.ml has chosen exactly this domain for server instead of some other
  
  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.
  
  Does it mean Machine Learning? Mr. Lemmy? Ms. Lemmy? Mega Lemmy? McCartney Lennon?
  
  Does it mean Machine Learning? Mr. Lemmy? Ms. Lemmy? Mega Lemmy? McCartney Lennon?
  
  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

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