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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, it's Mali.

The rumour is that lemmy devs chose it to mean "marxist leninist" but I think it's more likely they wanted a free domain name.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The rumor is fake, the devs have said it multiple times. If they would have wanted to do some funny Marxism meme they would have used .su

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe they didn't choose it for that, but to be fair they are definitely and admittedly Marxist-Leninists

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, as there are plenty of other developers who are openly liberals or some other flavour of capitalism. You don't need to agree with the developers political choices all the time to use their software.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right. My statement was one of fact, not trying to say it's a bad thing. I'm a Marxist-Leninist as well.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hello there comrade! Nice to have you here!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

This was a lovely exchange comrades

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Yeah they are, so if they did choose .ml for that reason they would have no problem admitting it also. So it's pretty clear that they just wanted a free domain.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

SU = Soviet Union

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't you need to be a citizen of a CIS nation to get a .su domain?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It depends on the registrar.