BarterClubWelp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down
hitagiOut of curiosity, other than fmhy.ml, lemmy.ml, and lemmygrad,ml, what other Lemmy instances were using .ml domains? Also, how are the latter two still running but fmhy.ml isn’t?
NOT_RICKWhy are so many instances using .ml anyway?
𝔊𝔦𝔫𝔧𝔲𝔱𝔰𝔲AFAIK, lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml use it because the ml can also stand for “Marxist-Leninist”, and the two primary maintainers of Lemmy are Marxist-Leninists . Not sure about the others though.
couragethebravedogDo you have a source for that statement?
gelberhutYes. 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.
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.
Cynetri (he/any)Idk if it was intentional or not but that last sentence is a great pun lmao
LemmyNet GitHub: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
One of two creators and main devs github.com/dessalines (second one: github.com/Nutomic)
His essays on github: github.com/dessalines/essays
Very polite version of lemmy creation: join-lemmy.org/docs/…/07-history-of-lemmy.html
In this trhead someone already posed reddit annoucment, which uses more honest wirding 🙂
TheGreenGolemOkay, 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.)
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.
Fucking KNEW it, just found this.
It was simply just free.
People and their “knowledge” about topics they don’t know anything about…
PSA: Sharing lemmy.ml links on sites where they are blocked - Lemmy
Some websites block lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] links, for example Facebook as you can see in the screenshot below. [https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/joG9JbEySe.png] I dont know if this is because of the .ml domain (which is free and might be used by spammers), or because they are scared of Lemmy. Anyway, this doesnt mean that it is impossible to share content from lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] on Facebook or other sites, thanks to federation there is a relatively easy workaround: 1. Find another Lemmy instance [https://join.lemmy.ml/instances], ideally one that is relevant to your audience 2. Copy the lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] link, and paste it into the search field of your chosen instance 3. You should get a search result for the post, comment, community or user, click on it 4. Copy the link and share! There are a few caveats though: In the case of a post, comments and votes will be missing. You can fetch comments in the same way through the search. The other instance will also not receive any new posts/comments/votes made in the community, unless a user from the remote instance is following the lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] community. The easiest way to avoid these problems is for you to make an account on the other instance and follow the community from it. Then every post/comment/vote will be delivered to the other instance, and the community should look identical on both instances.
Thanks!
