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? Since when. I used to have an account there months ago when I migrated from reddit. I don't think I would have missed that at the time
Yeah I had an account there too and I set it up like every other account. Found out later on that ml was Marxist Lennin so I setup shop at lemm.ee instead
.ml is the top level domain for the country of Mali. .ml domains are free, so it is just a coincidence. Also, Marxist-Leninism is not a 'tankie' theory, by itself. There are plenty of communists and socialists that aren't simps for China and Russia.
I would even say that you can't be a true communist and support either of these countries, because these countries are not communist at all. They are just authoritarian capitalistic hellholes, with sprinkles of social policies to give the illusion of pursuing a communist society.
Dessalines, lemmy dev and admin of both lemmygrad and lemmy.ml, is a Dengist. And not exactly coy about it.
And don't even fucking start to pretend it's "lemmygrad dot mali".
Fuck I'm retarded.
I've been here for months and kind of known all these components but just never connected the dots.
I was even defending Lemmy at one point.
Well, lemmy is code. From what I heard the indefensible thing about it was the utterly unoptimised DB usage but with influx of new devs that got quite a bit better.
At the beginning there were talks about a fork but one doesn't just fork a FLOSS project if there's no technical reasons, or reasons regarding project management, and in that regard dessalines appears to be sane.
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I never knew whether that was true, I just drifted away from it. .ml just means it is on a domain designated for Mali, but they could have explicitly chosen that domain to use it for another purpose.