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[–] NOT_RICK 84 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Why are so many instances using .ml anyway?

[–] Ginjutsu 148 points 1 year ago (21 children)

AFAIK, lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml use it because the ml can also stand for "Marxist-Leninist", and the two primary maintainers of Lemmy are Marxist-Leninists . Not sure about the others though.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It can also definitely stand for Machine Learning which is the first thing that comes to my mind

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

Yes but lemmy has nothing to do with Machine Learning.

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[–] drmoose 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not true at all. ML was used as an idiological choice as it's the only free TLD you can get and you should not have to pay for a domain name as per Lemmy's creators ideology.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

That’s not true. There are a few other free TLDs. I think five total?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

lemmy.ml, what type of drug are you on

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you have a source for that statement?

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I think it's because ML is a popular shorthand for 'Marxist-Leninist' since they mostly seem to be communist servers

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm guessing because it's sort of an alliteration on lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

It was free

And

Lemmy creators are Marxist Leninists

[–] Blamemeta 12 points 1 year ago

Theyre tankies, thats why.

[–] Aux 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So they can support Russia by proxy.

[–] Methylman 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol so one could say they fucked around and have now found out (yes I realize that was a sarcastic answer)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was free, and anonymous I guess

[–] drmoose 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not anonymous. In fact because it's free it requires more data to prevent someone from acquiring all of the domain names.