[x-post] Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1473025
This seems like it may be the root cause of the recent server issues, I had to guess. Probably a lot of federation issues if the .ml domains went down all at once. Probably why it's not that smart to use a domain owned by a (nominally) hostile foreign government, just saying...
lemmy_fmhy_ml was my main instance…
Now it’s pawb.social. I wanted .social instance and this was the first in awesome-lemmy-instances repo on GitHub.
@LemUrun @southernwolf Yay, we're awesome!
Wait, this isn't my Lemmy account, I'm still on my mastodon
Why were they using .ml domains?
Well, the assumption is because the two Lemmy devs are huge tankes, so using the .ml domain suites them, since it can mean "Marxism-Leninism."
Isn't it because it's free?
Pretty sure fmhy.ml is not managed by lemmy dev.
Also in tech world ML usually means machine learning.
Oof, that's a major headache.