What does the ML in Lemmy ML stand for? (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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[-] mateomaui@reddthat.com 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

It's Mali. Period.

Just because someone registers a domain to host a website from Mali doesn't mean they represent Mali. Tonga sells domains to anyone with the .to extension, which are used by many torrent sites because Tonga doesn't care much about respecting piracy laws elsewhere.

You're reading way too much into it.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've always hated that about DNS, I think it should have been more governed. For example with .gov, well .gov from the first point.

.gov shouldn't be anything really except for like UN or something. It shouldn't imply US.
US should be .us.gov, or Australia au.gov.
Ohio then should be ohio.us.gov
Akron of course akron.ohio.us.gov
and then logically all things like if you wanted to email the treasurer of Akron, Ohio it would be treasurer@akron.ohio.us.gov.

instead we have crazy domains like akronohio.gov. I mean, just the wild west of domains out here. It could have been so organized, people

[-] devilstrip@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Given my username, I was naturally very surprised as I read through your example. (Totally agree btw, but that would make too much sense)

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 1 year ago

Wait really? I swear I didn't read your username I just randomly picked Akron!

[-] devilstrip@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Wild! So devilstrip is what people from Akron call the grass between the road and the sidewalk.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 1 year ago

Never knew! That's so so weird and funny!

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