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[-] qwamqwamqwam@sh.itjust.works 42 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

.ml stands for Marxist/Leninist apparently. Communists try not to let idealism get in the way of practicality challenge(impossible)

To be fair this is a pretty crazy black swan event they couldn’t have possibly seen coming. But yeah, this is why novelty domain suffixes are novelties.

[-] hyperhopper@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

It was totally possible to see coming. The .ml domain deal and its expiration was known far in advance and I've been seeing posts about it for months.

This is 100% incompetence on whoever set up the site.

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Lemmy was started in 2019. And before the Reddit meltdown, it was more a bunch of very nerdy friends for whom a server going down was Tuesday.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 11 months ago

TIL Lemmy was created by M. Bison.

[-] ilmagico@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Interesting ... I always wondered why the .ml. In my trade ML is mostly used to mean "machine learning", aka AI, but it didn't seem fitting here.

[-] GONADS125@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No that's not true.. .ml is the TLD for Mali and lemmy.ml selected it because it was free.... This claim you're making is like people claiming AC/DC stands for anti-christ devil-child. No, it's electrical currents, hence the lightning bolt...

With that said, they did censor anti-china rhetoric, had many pro-china trolls/brainwashed users, and started censoring words, including "bitch." So I'm not defending the instance. But this claim about what .ml means is just blatantly false! It's a country's TLD!

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