Is there some connection to the nation?
No, theyre marxist-leninists. Basically, unironic communists.
Why does lemmy.ml use the "ML" country code for Mali?
Submitted 5 months ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Kaboom@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Delta_V@lemmy.world 5 months ago
ironically not communist
Kaboom@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Marx wasnt a communist? Ive heard a lot of “not true communism” takes, but thats a new one.
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 5 months ago
A lot of it isn’t actually communists, but a facade for spreading authoritarian propaganda.
barsquid@lemmy.world 5 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.
whoreticulture@lemmy.world 5 months ago
🙄 there are communist countries that are not Russia or China, just like there are capitalist countries that aren’t the United States.
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 5 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.
uis@lemm.ee 5 months ago
That’s some lore
TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 5 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.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 5 months ago
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 months ago
.ml domains are free.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Interestingly some instances got shut down by the Mali govt, no idea why this one gets to stay
pop@lemmy.ml 5 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.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Fwiw, I don’t think the connection to communism was ever confirmed by the admins. Likely a happy accident for them
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Before Lemmy, ML always meant machine learning to me.
recapitated@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Before Machine Learning, it meant Meta Language to me
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Before Meta Language, it meant Millilitres to me
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 5 months ago
Marxism-Leninism?
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I’d assumed it was a reference to machine learning.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Same
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s hard to imagine someone’s been active on Lemmy for a year and didn’t know that…
BertramDitore@lemmy.world 5 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.
dogsnest@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I am the walrus?
VulKendov@reddthat.com 5 months ago
I think you’re thinking of Lennon-McCartney
BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 5 months ago
Shut the fuck up Donny! V.I. Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hey! No you’re not. This is the walrus.
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