• hitagi@ani.social
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    1 year ago

    Out of curiosity, other than fmhy.ml, lemmy.ml, and lemmygrad.ml, what other Lemmy instances were using .ml domains? Also, how are the latter two still running but fmhy.ml isn’t?

    edit: This has triggered a chain of comments I wasn’t expecting. I’d appreciate it if someone can answer on a technical level. Is the latter two using a different registrar or name server which is why it still works for them?

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        1 year ago

        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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          1 year ago

          .ml stands for Mali.

          .ee stands for Estonia.

          .tv stands for Tuvalu

          Just like .ca stands for Canada.

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            1 year ago

            Thanks, I know what it stands for but I am trying to explain why that particular top-level domain was picked for those lemmy instances

        • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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          It’s not anonymous. In fact because it’s free it requires more data to prevent someone from acquiring all of the domain names.

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            1 year ago

            Hey now, what’s with all the logic and stuff. We only allowing jumping to conclusions around these parts, you should know better than that.

            /s

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              It’s not jumping to conclusions; it’s actually pretty well-known. The devs and their instance are very open about being Marxist-Leninists.

              I don’t see how machine learning is related to Lemmy in any way

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                Okay, fair enough. So…we getting back to Lemmy now?

                Edit:

                It really is an interesting social experiment when talking in neutral tones about people with communist beliefs. So I said are we getting back to Lemmy now and I get a battering of downvotes, okay I struck a nerve, but why? I’m pretty “far left” in my beliefs but we are all here aren’t we?

                It’s just interesting to see people say “well you can change instances!” Yeah, but the devs are still the devs - just because they’re not running those instances doesn’t mean they’re not the father or grandfather of those alternate instances. So your beliefs make you take a stance on the instance you choose, but not the software? How do you reconcile that?

                As far as the developers go, I think they created a great piece of software, but I trust the open source community to vet like they always do with all open source software, let’s see where this goes. I think the developers want to see the world in a way that just isn’t compatible with our current evolutionary state. They stated that they have their beliefs, and what they expect of their communities is kindness, and consideration towards others. So far, I’m good with that.

                I mean, the concepts of Marxism are actually quite noble. But there’s no doubt about it. The system fails because the people never end up in control, it simply doesn’t work. I just feel these devs simply live in the clouds too much and are not grounded in reality. I’m not sure how old they are, but they may not have lived enough life to realize we’re not a people evolved enough to support a true balanced socialist lifestyle - the best we can do is try to interject social programs into our capitalist lifestyle, as it is today, to fill the gaps that a capitalist society leaves behind.

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          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.

          • sciawp@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            That’s not true. There are a few other free TLDs. I think five total?

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          I’m going to have to make a copy paste for this:

          .ml stands for Mali.

          .ee stands for Estonia.

          .tv stands for Tuvalu

          Just like .ca stands for Canada.

          • Madbrad200@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            this is technically true, but it’s not why lemmygrad, ran by full on communists, chose the .ml tld

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                1 year ago

                It’s funny you’re getting down votes for this. ML was literally created as the official formulation of Marxism & Leninism for the USSR by Stalin.

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                  1 year ago

                  Reactionary Stalin/China/etc stans try to frame themselves as communists and don’t like it when it’s called out. They’re like qanonists with a different cult leader.