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Why was .ml selected to begin with?
.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.
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.
Lemmy was started in 2019. And before the Reddit meltdown, it was more a bunch of very nerdy friends for whom a server going down was Tuesday.
TIL Lemmy was created by M. Bison.
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.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!
Free
Considering the cost to host servers and develop both the backend and the Jerboa app, I dont think $10 a year on a .org would have ended the project?
Yeah so would have been a goad investment for ten bucks to keep the instance up
Also, hosting an instance doesn't mean you have to develop anything
the lemmy.ml instance is run by the devs though and lemmygrad is closely connected to it
Ah, op pic is from fmhy.ml
Always thought it's a play on machine learning, but I'm most probably wrong.
Many people said it was because "Marxist Leninist"