Is there some connection to the nation?
Marxism-Leninism?
I’d assumed it was a reference to machine learning.
Same
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Me too, thanks.
Yo tambien
I am the walrus?
I think you’re thinking of Lennon-McCartney
Shut the fuck up Donny! V.I. Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!
What’s Walters problem, Dude?
He can’t keep getting away with this!
Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts.
It’s hard to imagine someone’s been active on Lemmy for a year and didn’t know that…
I had no idea about this, and I’ve been here for just over a year. Also, keep in mind which community this is.
I don’t think I’ve ever questioned it before. There’s so many servers I don’t bother to know the history behind them all.
I literally thought it was for militant, because that’s how they come off over there if you’re not 100% in lockstep with them.
Like they were fighting the man or something.
Mali didn’t claim their country TLD for a long time, some dude named Johannes Zuurbier decided to just hand out domains to anyone who wanted them, for gratis unless your traffic was super high (and even then asked to only cover the traffic costs). He did this in his spare time for the community. This all further appealed to Marxist-Lenists.
Now it’s managed by the government of Mali, they still give them out for gratis/very cheap.
That’s some lore
And I think they used to be free.
Can’t remember the specifics but the Mali government was allowing free (or super cheap) use for awhile so that was the reason.
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.ml domains are free.
Interestingly some instances got shut down by the Mali govt, no idea why this one gets to stay
The .ml ccTLD was on a contract to a company called Freenom in the Netherlands until last year, then it went back to the Mali government. Freenom gave away domains for free until then. After the switch, the owners who didn’t outright buy it lost their domains.
Fwiw, I don’t think the connection to communism was ever confirmed by the admins. Likely a happy accident for them
There was a Reddit thread where they announced the server and explicitly said that was why. Can’t find it right now.
They definitely did used to admit it and the users claimed it as well but since the exodus they’ve been trying to distance themselves from it.
Source: was here goddamn 3yr ago on my old ml acct before the glorious db0 came into existence, and I promptly switched. Link in bio lol.
Before Lemmy, ML always meant machine learning to me.
Before Machine Learning, it meant Meta Language to me
Before Meta Language, it meant Millilitres to me
