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[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Quick, genuine question because I don't know: What does the "ml" in memes@lemmy.ml stand for? I thought it was for Marxist-Leninist but I'm actually not sure about that

[–] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's the TLD for the country of Mali

[–] CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago

.ml domains were "free" until recently, so many used them for their small scale projects. I did as well.

[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

Malding Liberals

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 17 points 2 years ago

As the others said.

Though the admins/devs ARE Marxist-Leninists, to be fair.

[–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It is the designation for the US military

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The US military has the .mil extension, not .ml

[–] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's fine. Just send your classified documents. It's cool.

[–] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

you're laughing. I lost my free domain name and you're laughing?

[–] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago
[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's actually the top level domain for the country of Mali, but it was probably chosen as a tongue in cheek reference to marxist-leninism.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I totally thought it was for Marxist-Leninist back when I first signed up 😌