• Boforn@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Well, this is just weird. When I was migrating from Reddit to this fediverse world I chose .ml and thought it was short for “machine learning” which seemed as a cool domain for me at the time.

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      1 year ago

      No, it’s Mali.

      The rumour is that lemmy devs chose it to mean “marxist leninist” but I think it’s more likely they wanted a free domain name.

      • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        The rumor is fake, the devs have said it multiple times. If they would have wanted to do some funny Marxism meme they would have used .su

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          1 year ago

          Maybe they didn’t choose it for that, but to be fair they are definitely and admittedly Marxist-Leninists

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            1 year ago

            Yeah they are, so if they did choose .ml for that reason they would have no problem admitting it also. So it’s pretty clear that they just wanted a free domain.