Remembering to look for and ignore folks with that telltale indicator has made the fediverse so much more enjoyable.
You know what's funny is .ml was one of the first instances I signed up for. I thought it stood for machine learning or something to do with programming.
I knew it was a leftist instance. I went into it (naively) excited to engage with a more thoughtful leftist internet space, considering it was a bunch of reddit exiles who were upset about heavy handed Reddit censorship. I was quite disappointed to learn quickly that it was just more of the same tankie brain rot, with more of the same tankie censorship you can find in a thousand different tedious places.
Even then I stuck with it for a bit. And then I learned that the head admin was potentially the most fragile person on the Internet, who literally will not post outside his own instance because he cannot handle any internet where he does not have (what he believes to be) a "win argument" ban button. It is literally so cringe, I cannot stand to be associated with it, and I don't understand how other people tolerate being associated with his antics.
MLs are essentially incapable of arguing in good faith. You know how Christians quote to bible to "prove" their religion is true? MLs are the political version of that.
I've got an ml account too, but at the time I think world was normal. I think world has also gone the Reich way.
wait, what does it stand for?
Technically it is the top-level domain name for Mali.
I’m fairly certain that the Lemmy devs chose it because of their two favorite socialists/communists: Marx and Lenin. But I can’t find a reference to that right now.
Marx was a socialist political philosopher, that helped define the social end goal of communism. Lenin was a militant revolutionary that thought he could ignore Marx's slow natural social evolution to communism. And force it under authoritarian boot heel. He was aspirationally communist at best, but not communist. His ideology has failed to achieve it everywhere it was tried. Generally, creating a new class of Petit Bourgeoisie or even collapsing into open fascism.
Other than that you are correct. Lemmy.ml hexbear.ml and lemmygrad.ml all chose the Mali TLD because of the abbreviation.
Moron liberation
My .ml experience:
I'm pretty sure I'm banned from .ml.
Badge of honour.
from the modlog it looked like you got a 4 day ban for citing a work of fiction as fact and crashing out in the replies when challenged on it
Honestly these kinds of posts don't bother me. I'm usually on here answering people's tech questions or trying to provide useful resources to people. If they don't see it because they have ml blanket blocked then that's their loss.
There is a specter haunting the fediverse 👻
Says the .World-ers
.world has its share of awful and part of why I rock piefed, but I chalk a lot of that up to essentially being the default instance.
Fuck! So .ml is not abbreviation for "Monster Lovers"?
I was wondering why so many tankies dominated that instance.
ML meaning "Marxist-Leninists" makes so much more sense now.
What a bunch of assholes.
The tell-tale indicator is the post itself, not the instance.
I'll make my own judgments, thank you.
idk what the instance fuss is about and i dont care
edit 8 days later: i get it now. .ml mods can suck my dick
.nl
Whinging about lemmy.ml yet again are you? Speaking of making the fediverse more enjoyable, it's a good idea to ignore folks who love to stir the pot and create fediverse drama.
Solid rule: verify the source before the outrage. Saves your blood pressure and your feed.
I really need to get off .ml
This is politics imo. Where's the corn?
Whenever braininabox shows up, you know it's about to get a little Rule 2 in here
1. Be civil
No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour
2. No politics
This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world
3. No recent reposts
Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month
4. No bots
No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins
5. No Spam/Ads/AI Slop
No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live. We also consider AI slop to be spam in this community and is subject to removal.
A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment