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Why are so many instances using .ml anyway?
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.
It can also definitely stand for Machine Learning which is the first thing that comes to my mind
Yes but lemmy has nothing to do with Machine Learning.
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.
That’s not true. There are a few other free TLDs. I think five total?
lemmy.ml, what type of drug are you on
Do you have a source for that statement?
Alright, thanks. I'll look around. I don't have a problem with it if that's why they chose ml, I just want to know for sure before I told anyone that. Some people get up in arms about socialism.
Okay, but.
Are they Marxist-Leninist? Pro-China? Socialists? Anti-capitalists? Looks like: yes.
Was the whole thing founded on the grounds of free, shared things and anti-corporate thinking? Also yes.
Do we absolutely know for sure that the ML domain was chosen because of this? No, because the above sources (or any source I ever saw) confirms or denies this claim. (If there is something specifically about the TLD, please share with me.)
I'm not saying it stands for Machine Learning. I'm not saying it stands for My Love or Mah Lord. But I also wouldn't say that it for sure stands for Marxist-Leninist. We can assume, but we don't know for sure. Maybe it's because it's free, maybe it sounds cool, maybe it's Maybelline. We don't know this specific aspect of the story. (As far as I'm aware.)
Fucking KNEW it, just found this.
It was simply just free.
People and their "knowledge" about topics they don't know anything about...
https://lemmy.ml/comment/58293
Idk if it was intentional or not but that last sentence is a great pun lmao
I think it's because ML is a popular shorthand for 'Marxist-Leninist' since they mostly seem to be communist servers
It was free
I'm guessing because it's sort of an alliteration on lemmy?
It was free
And
Lemmy creators are Marxist Leninists
Theyre tankies, thats why.
So they can support Russia by proxy.
Lol so one could say they fucked around and have now found out (yes I realize that was a sarcastic answer)
It was free, and anonymous I guess
It's not anonymous. In fact because it's free it requires more data to prevent someone from acquiring all of the domain names.