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[–] Castor_Troy@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I always thought .ml meant or implied Marxism-Leninism. The site I'm viewing this from, hexbear.net, is basically a community of Marxist-Leninists. It's virtually all politics.

[–] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Still, even with such a meaning, taking it at face value, the name refers to one of those anti-western countries the west considers failed and "ebil", so to speak... so that kinda defines Lemmy's community.

[–] Castor_Troy@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Technically correct. What I've read on the web in a few places is that the devs that created Lemmy chose the TLD because they were MLs.

Not necessarily fully political and partisan, but there are political undertones at least here.