Remembering to look for and ignore folks with that telltale indicator has made the fediverse so much more enjoyable.
Honestly these kinds of posts don't bother me. I'm usually on here answering people's tech questions or trying to provide useful resources to people. If they don't see it because they have ml blanket blocked then that's their loss.
Yeah, there are plenty people who ended up there early when they're weren't many other options. Or just didn't know. Though it's your loss as well. Cut off from several instances for the behavior of others. It definitely sucks.
If we're missing more animosity like this thread then we're probably not missing much at all.
You know what's funny is .ml was one of the first instances I signed up for. I thought it stood for machine learning or something to do with programming.
I knew it was a leftist instance. I went into it (naively) excited to engage with a more thoughtful leftist internet space, considering it was a bunch of reddit exiles who were upset about heavy handed Reddit censorship. I was quite disappointed to learn quickly that it was just more of the same tankie brain rot, with more of the same tankie censorship you can find in a thousand different tedious places.
Even then I stuck with it for a bit. And then I learned that the head admin was potentially the most fragile person on the Internet, who literally will not post outside his own instance because he cannot handle any internet where he does not have (what he believes to be) a "win argument" ban button. It is literally so cringe, I cannot stand to be associated with it, and I don't understand how other people tolerate being associated with his antics.
I've got an ml account too, but at the time I think world was normal. I think world has also gone the Reich way.
wait, what does it stand for?
Technically it is the top-level domain name for Mali.
I’m fairly certain that the Lemmy devs chose it because of their two favorite socialists/communists: Marx and Lenin. But I can’t find a reference to that right now.
Marx was a socialist political philosopher, that helped define the social end goal of communism. Lenin was a militant revolutionary that thought he could ignore Marx's slow natural social evolution to communism. And force it under authoritarian boot heel. He was aspirationally communist at best, but not communist. His ideology has failed to achieve it everywhere it was tried. Generally, creating a new class of Petit Bourgeoisie or even collapsing into open fascism.
Other than that you are correct. Lemmy.ml hexbear.ml and lemmygrad.ml all chose the Mali TLD because of the abbreviation.
Just like .TV domain is actually Tuvalu but Twitch and other livestreaming sites use it as abbreviation. These countries actually make a lot of money from selling top level domains like that.
Yes though I thought I remembered reading something a few years ago about them reclaiming them. But hard to turn down money.
Mutilated Leprechauns
Fuck! So .ml is not abbreviation for "Monster Lovers"?
My .ml experience:
quality advice masquerading as a meme
The best jokes have a lot of truth to them!
I was wondering why so many tankies dominated that instance.
ML meaning "Marxist-Leninists" makes so much more sense now.
What a bunch of assholes.
The tell-tale indicator is the post itself, not the instance.
I'll make my own judgments, thank you.
For sure! I did that once when I was new here, it went sideways.
I never know the difference between all these Lemmy instances and why some communities are full of insane people
Racist people hang out with racist people. Sexist people hang out with sexist people
People are absolutely fucking amazing at self segregation with out realizing it.
How about you make it a central part of your life? Wouldn't that be cool?
me, a shitjustworks based fucker
US liberals are so upset when they hear anything to the left of AOC.
US Liberals are upset when they see anyone further left than Ronald Reagan
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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
