What happened to Lemmy ML? It had disappeared from my list and I had to log in again.

mojo, 10 months ago

You’re posting from it so it seems to be working

favrion, 10 months ago

The key word is “had.”

Aribert, 10 months ago

I am logged in to lemmy.ml and it seems to run just fine as of now.

The_Picard_Maneuver, 10 months ago

I got “bad gateway” a little while ago from my browser bookmark, but I just figured it was temporarily down and didn’t think anything of it.

maegul, 10 months ago

Chiming in from lemmy.ml here

Dirk, 10 months ago

This happens very often here. lemmy.ml isn’t reliable and the performance is very bad.

meldrik, 10 months ago

What do you mean it disappeared from your list?

favrion, 10 months ago

I didn’t see it on my drop-down list.

ocassionallyaduck, 10 months ago

I believe the top level domain, the .ML was reclaimed by the country of Mali recently, who own it. It was just bad luck.

favrion, 10 months ago

Is that what the ML means? I thought that it meant Machine Learning.

BlameThePeacock, 10 months ago

All two letter domains are for countries.

Even .tv which is Tuvalu

favrion, 10 months ago

But what does the ML in this instance mean?

ocassionallyaduck, 10 months ago

Mali. The country of Mali.

favrion, 10 months ago

Lemmy is from Mali?

BlameThePeacock, 10 months ago

Anyone can register a domain anywhere as long as the country allows it. Lemmy is not from Mali in this case.

nobodywithbody, 10 months ago

@BlameThePeacock @favrion I believe, he asked why developers of lemmy.ml has chosen exactly this domain for server instead of some other

favrion, 10 months ago

But since they’re not from Mali, what is the ML supposed to mean?

favrion, 10 months ago

Does it mean Machine Learning? Mr. Lemmy? Ms. Lemmy? Mega Lemmy? McCartney Lennon?

BlameThePeacock, 10 months ago

Nothing, it’s just usually cheaper than a .com address

favrion, 10 months ago

But it bothers me that it has no meaning. It must stand for something.

favrion, 10 months ago

From my understanding, a pair of letters either stands for something or represents a country. Since Lemmy is not based in Mali, then ML must stand for something.

FrullaPapaya, 10 months ago

ML in lemmy.ml stands for Marxist Leninist, I am not joking. The creators and developers of lemmy.ml are pretty left leaning.

133arc585, 10 months ago

I am not joking.

You might not be joking but you are assuming. Do you have a link to a statement by a site admin that says explicitly that is what it stands for? Otherwise you’re just speculating, and there are other reasons someone would have chosen .ml besides it standing for that.

1stTime4MeInMCU, 10 months ago

I thought it was for motherland lol with the amount of tankies

favrion, 10 months ago

Tankies? Is that a reference?

Sean, 10 months ago

@favrion @1stTime4MeInMCU tankies is derogatory term of communists who regardless of reality excuse everything that authoritarian governments do. It was coined to describe Stalinists who defended USSR rolling in tanks on Hungary in 1958. They're the mirror image of MAGA cultists who will be the first to defend Trump when he inevitably goes ahead and shoots someone in the middle of 5th Ave.

My 1st interaction with a tankie was a Canadian youtuber who made videos defending North Korea, not satire

meldrik, 10 months ago

No, it didn’t. Lemmy.ml is running just fine.