• qwamqwamqwam@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    .ml stands for Marxist/Leninist apparently. Communists try not to let idealism get in the way of practicality challenge(impossible)

    To be fair this is a pretty crazy black swan event they couldn’t have possibly seen coming. But yeah, this is why novelty domain suffixes are novelties.

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      1 year ago

      It was totally possible to see coming. The .ml domain deal and its expiration was known far in advance and I’ve been seeing posts about it for months.

      This is 100% incompetence on whoever set up the site.

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      1 year ago

      Interesting … I always wondered why the .ml. In my trade ML is mostly used to mean “machine learning”, aka AI, but it didn’t seem fitting here.

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      No that’s not true… .ml is the TLD for Mali and lemmy.ml selected it because it was free… This claim you’re making is like people claiming AC/DC stands for anti-christ devil-child. No, it’s electrical currents, hence the lightning bolt…

      With that said, they did censor anti-china rhetoric, had many pro-china trolls/brainwashed users, and started censoring words, including “bitch.” So I’m not defending the instance. But this claim about what .ml means is just blatantly false! It’s a country’s TLD!