• Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    the argument for .ml domain has always been absurd to begin with. So it’s free but the price you pay is that it’s being run by Mali. I’d just drop 8$/year tbh, that’s not a hill you want to die for. Also you harm your project by being SEO punished for using spam-associated TLDs like this. One of the reasons original Lemmy took so long to adopt until Reddit’s API drama. Pretty dumb ngl.

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      1 year ago

      If i remember right it was also “free to register but insanely expensive to renew once they start to see traffic”

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        1 year ago

        Renewal costs are my primary consideration when picking domains. Subscription fees is how your money disappears when you’re not looking.

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    1 year ago

    Out 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?

    edit: This has triggered a chain of comments I wasn’t expecting. I’d appreciate it if someone can answer on a technical level. Is the latter two using a different registrar or name server which is why it still works for them?

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          1 year ago

          I’m going to have to make a copy paste for this:

          .ml stands for Mali.

          .ee stands for Estonia.

          .tv stands for Tuvalu

          Just like .ca stands for Canada.

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            1 year ago

            this is technically true, but it’s not why lemmygrad, ran by full on communists, chose the .ml tld

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                It’s funny you’re getting down votes for this. ML was literally created as the official formulation of Marxism & Leninism for the USSR by Stalin.

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                  1 year ago

                  Reactionary Stalin/China/etc stans try to frame themselves as communists and don’t like it when it’s called out. They’re like qanonists with a different cult leader.

        • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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          That’s not true at all. ML was used as an idiological choice as it’s the only free TLD you can get and you should not have to pay for a domain name as per Lemmy’s creators ideology.

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            1 year ago

            That’s not true. There are a few other free TLDs. I think five total?

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            1 year ago

            Hey now, what’s with all the logic and stuff. We only allowing jumping to conclusions around these parts, you should know better than that.

            /s

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              It’s not jumping to conclusions; it’s actually pretty well-known. The devs and their instance are very open about being Marxist-Leninists.

              I don’t see how machine learning is related to Lemmy in any way

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                Okay, fair enough. So…we getting back to Lemmy now?

                Edit:

                It really is an interesting social experiment when talking in neutral tones about people with communist beliefs. So I said are we getting back to Lemmy now and I get a battering of downvotes, okay I struck a nerve, but why? I’m pretty “far left” in my beliefs but we are all here aren’t we?

                It’s just interesting to see people say “well you can change instances!” Yeah, but the devs are still the devs - just because they’re not running those instances doesn’t mean they’re not the father or grandfather of those alternate instances. So your beliefs make you take a stance on the instance you choose, but not the software? How do you reconcile that?

                As far as the developers go, I think they created a great piece of software, but I trust the open source community to vet like they always do with all open source software, let’s see where this goes. I think the developers want to see the world in a way that just isn’t compatible with our current evolutionary state. They stated that they have their beliefs, and what they expect of their communities is kindness, and consideration towards others. So far, I’m good with that.

                I mean, the concepts of Marxism are actually quite noble. But there’s no doubt about it. The system fails because the people never end up in control, it simply doesn’t work. I just feel these devs simply live in the clouds too much and are not grounded in reality. I’m not sure how old they are, but they may not have lived enough life to realize we’re not a people evolved enough to support a true balanced socialist lifestyle - the best we can do is try to interject social programs into our capitalist lifestyle, as it is today, to fill the gaps that a capitalist society leaves behind.

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        I think it’s because ML is a popular shorthand for ‘Marxist-Leninist’ since they mostly seem to be communist servers

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          .ml stands for Mali.

          .ee stands for Estonia.

          .tv stands for Tuvalu

          Just like .ca stands for Canada.

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            Thanks, I know what it stands for but I am trying to explain why that particular top-level domain was picked for those lemmy instances

        • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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          It’s not anonymous. In fact because it’s free it requires more data to prevent someone from acquiring all of the domain names.

  • MadeFreshDaily@lemmy.ml
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    I’m new to the fediverse and not sure how it works just yet. Can someone help me understand? My account was created on Lemmy.ml, will it no longer work and I’ll have to make another?

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      I would make a lemmy world account personally, it’s tough to say what will happen long term with .ml domains. Even if your account still works, it may by hampered getting posts from the rest of the fediverse. Worst case scenario you have account on two popular lemmy instances.

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      Are you aware that ml in lemmy.ml stands for marxism-leninism and that the admins of your instance don’t support any critique of the chinese government? I’m asking because I think a lot of new users chose lemmy.ml randomly - mostly because it was big - and if they knew this, many of them would have chosen differently.

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        I had no clue. I was just tired of Reddit and when looking into Lemmy the .ml one came up first in the search. Guess I get to make a new one somewhere else.

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          They chose .ml because it was free. They don’t delete comments just because they don’t agree with them. I don’t get why some people feel the need to spread lies about the lemmy devs/lemmy.ml admins just for being in favour of communism.