My source is not being a fucking idiot. Yes, the guys with the Mao and Castro avatars whose entire personality is being MLs just chose that domain by chance. Jfc you are either so dumb or so disingenuous.
My first account on Lemmy got banned for suggesting that ml was for marxist-leninist even though it clearly is.
Like why do you think Lemmygrad, the explicitly tankie instance, chose the same domain? Coincidence?
It also adds to the deployment complexity even more. Just from memory, to run Mastodon you need:
So this is at least 5 different server processes to manage, In reality for almost all deployments, Redis and Elasticsearch are unnecessary; the database can be used for jobs and full text search. Further, it could even be SQLite for all but large instances.
The deployment story for Mastodon is a nightmare and a substitute like Pleroma or even better something in Rust is necessary.
You can do better than that