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lemmy.ml and hexbear.net has been banned in China (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/fediverse

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/6763330

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/6763328

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/6137607

now users must use VPN for login lemmy.ml

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right. And TV means Tuvalu but it actually means television far more often than Tuvalu when it’s used in a domain name.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

how many websites have you seen use it based on its meaning of marxist leninist versus how many have used tv for television?

lemmy and lemmygrad, can you name others?

I hate them for ccp/russia propaganda but this is straight up mental bubble made up by some edgelord with no rational argument.

Just because you want it to be so, doesn't make it.

[–] fkn 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Here is the rest of the story: the people who chose the subdomain chose .ml because they want it to mean marx-lenin... that's why it means that for them.

Generally you are right. In this specific instance it was chosen for the fascism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 fucking register of the domain himself said it was chosen because it was free.

It was simply just free. People and their "knowledge" about topics they don't know anything about...

https://lemmy.ml/comment/58293

Dessalines is the owner of the domain, one of the owners of the ML instance and one of the full-time devs of the Lemmy code.

I think an overwhelming number of people simply chose that instance becuase it was the instance, made by the devs themselves. At least it was the case for me.