For context: The thread was about why people hate Hexbear and Lemmygrad instances

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    51 year ago

    .ml = Mali.

    I know it was the haunt of scammers when it was a free domain, but the government of Mali have reassigned management now so hopefully it will be less problematic as time goes on.

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      1 year ago

      afaih, one of the reasons that lemmy.ml chose their domain suffix actually was for this reason, though I am unsure how much weight it had on their decision.

      Edit: As @[email protected] mentioned, this is mostly apocryphal.

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        31 year ago

        @moosetwin I know that’s the rumour but I suspect they were picking out of a very small pool of free domains and the free part had a lot more to do with it.

        Saying the Mali suffix “means” Marxist Leninism is a bit like saying your .com stands for Capitalism Only Mate. I mean sure it does but only in your own mind, not irl.