• tara@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s just a country code like others mention. Also I imagine it doubles as the “Marxist-Leninist” acronym in some people’s eyes given the developers’ ideology.

  • yarn@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

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

    .ml is the internet country code top-level domain for the country of Mali. According to wikipedia, Mali is giving away .ml domains for free in an affort to promote their IT industry. I suspect that’s the reason why some instances chose .ml domains. But that’s just a guess from me.

  • EtnaAtsume@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    Thanks, everyone! I too had found the mali result in my own searches, but that didn’t seem to make sense to me. Guess it was true after all!

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      1 year ago

      Well, it’s also worth noting the creators of lemmy.ml are communist and ML is probably a neat way of linking it to Marxist-Leninism.