• jkozaka@lemm.ee
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    24 days ago

    The ml in lemmy ml means marxism-leninism, it’s maintained by the lemmy devs so it has lots of “normal” users too. Some people associate lemmy.ml with “tankie” viewpoints.

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      23 days ago

      The ml in lemmy ml means marxism-leninism

      It means Mali and was chosen because it was cheap/free

      • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        23 days ago

        You’re both right!

        It is Mali’s domain, and Marxist-Leninists choose that domain to work out of because of the initialism.

        Kinda like why BIOT’s domain is so popular with the tech folks.

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        23 days ago

        chosen because it was cheap

        Um nah, there are a LOT of cheap ass TLDs, hell even .com TLDs are only $10-20 a YEAR

        It might not actually mean marxism-leninism (then again, who the hell knows, we have .zip TLDs now ffs), but it sure does to the .ml admins

    • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
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      22 days ago

      The ml stands for Mali, which is the country the instance domain is registered to. The Marxist-Leninist connection is a happy coincidence for them.