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Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down (i.imgur.com)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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https://very.bignutty.xyz/notes/9hf13it1ced3b2za

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[–] 84 points 3 years ago (55 children)

Why are so many instances using .ml anyway?

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  • [–] 149 points 3 years ago (36 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.

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  • [–] 66 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    It can also definitely stand for Machine Learning which is the first thing that comes to my mind

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (9 children)

    Do you have a source for that statement?

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (7 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.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (6 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.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (4 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 🙂

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 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.)

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 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.

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