Why does lemmy.ml use the "ML" country code for Mali?

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Marxism-Leninism?

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  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d assumed it was a reference to machine learning.

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    • jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s hard to imagine someone’s been active on Lemmy for a year and didn’t know that…

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    • BertramDitore@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I had no idea about this, and I’ve been here for just over a year. Also, keep in mind which community this is.

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  • dogsnest@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am the walrus?

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    • VulKendov@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think you’re thinking of Lennon-McCartney

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    • BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Shut the fuck up Donny! V.I. Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hey! No you’re not. This is the walrus.

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• Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, theyre marxist-leninists. Basically, unironic communists.

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  • Delta_V@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ironically not communist

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    • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Marx wasnt a communist? Ive heard a lot of “not true communism” takes, but thats a new one.

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  • awwwyissss@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A lot of it isn’t actually communists, but a facade for spreading authoritarian propaganda.

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    • barsquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is true. As long as a country declares itself to be economically left, they will defend every single authoritarian action and human rights abuse. Doesn’t matter if the reality is that the state capitalist country produces hundreds of billionaires. Any claim of leftist economics and they will defend anything it does. It’s clear they love defending authoritarianism more than they like leftist economics.

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    • whoreticulture@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      🙄 there are communist countries that are not Russia or China, just like there are capitalist countries that aren’t the United States.

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• lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s some lore

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• TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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• hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • https://beehaw.org/post/460235

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  .ml domains are free.

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Interestingly some instances got shut down by the Mali govt, no idea why this one gets to stay

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    • pop@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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• OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fwiw, I don’t think the connection to communism was ever confirmed by the admins. Likely a happy accident for them

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• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Before Lemmy, ML always meant machine learning to me.

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  • recapitated@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Before Machine Learning, it meant Meta Language to me

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    • LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Before Meta Language, it meant Millilitres to me

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