I believe the top level domain, the .ML was reclaimed by the country of Mali recently, who own it. It was just bad luck.
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
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No, it didn’t. Lemmy.ml is running just fine.
Is that what the ML means? I thought that it meant Machine Learning.
All two letter domains are for countries.
Even .tv which is Tuvalu
I thought it was for motherland lol with the amount of tankies
If that's the case, I figured it was "Marxist-Leninist", which is what most of them prefer to describe themselves as.
@blamethepeacock See? It does stand for something, since it clearly isn't Mali.
Why would Lemmy feel the need to represent a foreign country?
@blamethepeacock No response?
@blamethepeacock All I'm looking for is a conversation.
You're not just looking for conversation.
Unless you get a response from the site admins, anyone's answer is pure speculation. No one is going to be able to say, definitively, why .ml was chosen, except the site admins.
My theory is: .ml domains used to be offered for free. So they made lemmy.ml for free, as it was just a toy project. Then, they upgraded to the paid .ml domain (which is how they managed to avoid the recent free .ml purge).
The "its Marxism-Leninism" could be true, but unless you get an answer from a site admin, everyone asserting that it's true is talking out of their ass. They don't know any more than you or I know.
Thank you. I appreciate your friendly input.
Tankies? Is that a reference?
@favrion @1stTime4MeInMCU tankies is derogatory term of communists who regardless of reality excuse everything that authoritarian governments do. It was coined to describe Stalinists who defended USSR rolling in tanks on Hungary in 1958. They're the mirror image of MAGA cultists who will be the first to defend Trump when he inevitably goes ahead and shoots someone in the middle of 5th Ave.
My 1st interaction with a tankie was a Canadian youtuber who made videos defending North Korea, not satire
I got "bad gateway" a little while ago from my browser bookmark, but I just figured it was temporarily down and didn't think anything of it.
Chiming in from lemmy.ml here
This happens very often here. lemmy.ml isn't reliable and the performance is very bad.
I am logged in to lemmy.ml and it seems to run just fine as of now.
What do you mean it disappeared from your list?
I didn't see it on my drop-down list.
You're posting from it so it seems to be working
The key word is "had."