this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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They needed the one that stood for "marxist-leninist" is why, in case you were unaware.
Nope: https://lemmy.ml/comment/58293
Turns out it was free for a reason. 😅
Heh, what a tool. Nothing's stopping him from just using ip addresses, or the reverse that whoever provides the server ip almost guaranteed have set up. But no, he wants a fancy looking one, so it HAS some value or he wouldn't need one, and a domain require name servers, and people administrating and maintaining it. He just don't want to pay for that part. And come on, a domain is like 15 dollars a year?
Bear in mind this was two years ago. Lemmy was small back then. I can understand someone not being able to justify the price of a domain name at that scale.
Well 2y ago that's what the marxist-leninists here claimed anyway.
Btw, that link either leads to the wrong post or jerboa is broken lol, however from the "nope" I can infer that it is meant as a refutation so fuck it.
Here's a quote from dessalines on said post that explains it:
So then in a sense it is marxist in nature, as this answer hints to marxist values with "buying them feels like acquiescing to the digital enclosure of the commons."
However when this place was all marxist-leninists 2y ago, they made it very clear that it was a ML instance, by ML, for ML, and they claimed that .ml stood for marxist-leninist. As to when they decided that was no longer the case I have no clue, but that was the claim until redditors came and drowned them out a bit.
The comment was made 2 years ago - but as to whether it's attempting to masquerade the real reasoning behind it, I can't really say since I'm not the devs. I just thought it was worth copying over the comment contents since you mentioned you couldn't see it, I figured there might be others who couldn't as well!
I do appreciate it, the link for some reason leads to a completely unrelated post, but it looks like others can see it, so I think it's a Jerboa issue.
True, we aren't the devs so we can't know their true intentions or thoughts, but I have my suspicions. If I trusted everyone all the time I'd be helping OJ look for Nicole's killer rn.
(This is what the link loads for me btw)
Which is pretty funny, because as far as I can tell, they're actually Stalinists.
I don't pretend I can make sense of them, I just know what was claimed when I showed up 2y ago. I think the stalinists are mostly the ones that broke off to form lemmygrad iirc, as lemmy.ml was supposed to be a marxist-leninist deal, and it was one until the reddit exodus.