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What does the ML in Lemmy ML stand for? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by favrion@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy_admin@lemmy.ml
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I asked this as a comment on my previous post, but I still have some questions. 1: If ML stands for Mali and they're not from Mali, then why would they represent a foreign country? 2: Since it's not Mali, what does the ML stand for? If it's a pair of letters, it represents a country or stands for two words. Machine Learning? McCartney Lennon? Mega Lemmy?

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[–] Silverseren@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's the Mali top level domain. The devs were just originally looking for a cheap domain to use.

Though I would expect they purposefully looked for one that let them have a dual-meaning, since the .ml also stands for Marxist-Leninist, as the devs are big Russia, China, and North Korea supporters.

[–] livus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And by "cheap" we mean literally free in some cases.

Mali's government was letting Freenom manage it. So it was a free domain name like .tk, with all the problems that entails with misuse.

Tagging you @favrion because no one seems to have mentioned this, and I think it answers your question.

[–] favrion@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

How do you know this?