Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down

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Do you have a source for that statement?

Yes. Check (Google) esses in GitHub of one of Lemmy Devs, check official Lemmy creation history, check Reddit post announcing lemyy creation.

This topic was discussed multiple times here and there.

Alright, thanks. I'll look around. I don't have a problem with it if that's why they chose ml, I just want to know for sure before I told anyone that. Some people get up in arms about socialism.

LemmyNet GitHub: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

One of two creators and main devs https://github.com/dessalines (second one: https://github.com/Nutomic)

His essays on github: https://github.com/dessalines/essays

Very polite version of lemmy creation: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/07-history-of-lemmy.html

In this trhead someone already posed reddit annoucment, which uses more honest wirding 🙂

Okay, but.
Are they Marxist-Leninist? Pro-China? Socialists? Anti-capitalists? Looks like: yes.
Was the whole thing founded on the grounds of free, shared things and anti-corporate thinking? Also yes.
Do we absolutely know for sure that the ML domain was chosen because of this? No, because the above sources (or any source I ever saw) confirms or denies this claim. (If there is something specifically about the TLD, please share with me.)

I'm not saying it stands for Machine Learning. I'm not saying it stands for My Love or Mah Lord. But I also wouldn't say that it for sure stands for Marxist-Leninist. We can assume, but we don't know for sure. Maybe it's because it's free, maybe it sounds cool, maybe it's Maybelline. We don't know this specific aspect of the story. (As far as I'm aware.)

Yes. Here you are right. There is no written explanation for the domain name I'm aware of, but from all possible interpretation this is the most logical one.