• fkn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Here is the rest of the story: the people who chose the subdomain chose .ml because they want it to mean marx-lenin… that’s why it means that for them.

    Generally you are right. In this specific instance it was chosen for the fascism.

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      1 year ago

      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 fucking register of the domain himself said it was chosen because it was free.

      It was simply just free. People and their “knowledge” about topics they don’t know anything about…

      https://lemmy.ml/comment/58293

      Dessalines is the owner of the domain, one of the owners of the ML instance and one of the full-time devs of the Lemmy code.

      I think an overwhelming number of people simply chose that instance becuase it was the instance, made by the devs themselves. At least it was the case for me.