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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Why are so many instances using .ml anyway?

[–] [email protected] 145 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] 65 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] 46 points 1 year ago

Yes but lemmy has nothing to do with Machine Learning.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, but as discussed several times here and there Lemmy Devs are pro china and anti USA and they admin lemmy.lm. in this case LM stays for Marxism Leninism.

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[–] [email protected] 22 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?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. Check (Google) esses in GitHub of one of Lemmy Devs, check official Lemmy creation history, check Reddit post announcing lemyy creation.

This topic was discussed multiple times here and there.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Idk if it was intentional or not but that last sentence is a great pun lmao

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LemmyNet GitHub: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

One of two creators and main devs https://github.com/dessalines (second one: https://github.com/Nutomic)

His essays on github: https://github.com/dessalines/essays

Very polite version of lemmy creation: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/07-history-of-lemmy.html

In this trhead someone already posed reddit annoucment, which uses more honest wirding 🙂

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. Here you are right. There is no written explanation for the domain name I'm aware of, but from all possible interpretation this is the most logical one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 49 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] 29 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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Theyre tankies, thats why.

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

So they can support Russia by proxy.

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

It was free, and anonymous I guess

[–] [email protected] 7 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.