I think I’ve most often heard quote unquote used sarcastically, like scare quotes in writing. When someone’s quoting something seriously I usually hear the quote something unquote or a and I quote something.

I’ve got no skin in this game, but i thought you could register a site on a TLD for a country other than the one you live in? That you can hunt around for one that matches whatever backronym your looking for now. From what other posters have said it sounds like the craters of lemmy .ml may have chosen the Mali domain because it was also a communist call.