The ccTLD was free when lemmy started. And developers like to test out things on free resources. The ccTLD just became paid last year.
Repeating the same thing for the 1000th time doesn't make it the truth.
Yes they're tankies, have awful censorship and are thin skin snowflakes. but making out the whole .ml ccTLD a marxists-leninist agenda just makes them see you as conspiracy nuts.
For what? a couple domains you've noticed to fit your narrative? Holy fucking batman. LMAO!
As a user, the lemmy API backend is pretty fuckin fast. The default web frontend however is a slug.
Using lemmy with a third party app like voyager is super snappy.