ML stands for Marxist leninist, which means they love authoritarian regimes that don't like the US. The number of them that unironically stan Stalin is baffling.

[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

.ml is the top level domain for Mali, it doesn't have anything to do with Marxist-Leninism by itself. They may have chosen it as a tongue in cheek reference, but it is also a cheaper alternative to other more popular tlds like .com.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right. And TV means Tuvalu but it actually means television far more often than Tuvalu when it’s used in a domain name.

[–] loki@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

how many websites have you seen use it based on its meaning of marxist leninist versus how many have used tv for television?

lemmy and lemmygrad, can you name others?

I hate them for ccp/russia propaganda but this is straight up mental bubble made up by some edgelord with no rational argument.

Just because you want it to be so, doesn't make it.

[–] fkn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Here is the rest of the story: the people who chose the subdomain chose .ml because they want it to mean marx-lenin... that's why it means that for them.

Generally you are right. In this specific instance it was chosen for the fascism.

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 fucking register of the domain himself said it was chosen because it was free.

It was simply just free. People and their "knowledge" about topics they don't know anything about...

https://lemmy.ml/comment/58293

Dessalines is the owner of the domain, one of the owners of the ML instance and one of the full-time devs of the Lemmy code.

I think an overwhelming number of people simply chose that instance becuase it was the instance, made by the devs themselves. At least it was the case for me.

[–] nlm@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

.ml domain names used to be free (together with .ga I think it was) through freenom so it might just be that they snagged themselves a free domain that just happened to be ml.

Not saying you couldn't be right but not everything is quite as well thought out as it first seems.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

ML is machine learning. It means they love teaching AI to overthrow the illuminati government lizard people. Can't believe u didn't know that, kinda embarrassing

Sees some use in Mali and for some websites about machine learning. Use is relatively rare elsewhere.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ml