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Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down (i.imgur.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you have a source for that statement?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 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 🙂

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 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.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Fucking KNEW it, just found this.
It was simply just free.
People and their "knowledge" about topics they don't know anything about...

https://lemmy.ml/comment/58293

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Idk if it was intentional or not but that last sentence is a great pun lmao