Part of me is sad that this is needed, but it's also exciting to try something new
It's the Malinese top-level domain from what I can tell. As to why it is favored, I can think of two reasons:
- Domain registration is free
- It mimicks the OG lemmy.ml domain
RCS could have been great if e2e were baked in from the start. Apple would not have had such a strong argument to stay with its own standard and we might not have found ourselves with this divide.