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/r/LegalAdviceUK is forced back open, vows to move the entire community off Reddit (www.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago by losttourist@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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As with many other subreddits, /r/LegalAdviceUK (which had been dark since the start of the blackout) has been sent a thinly-veiled threat by Reddit.

So they've reopened in order to start moving the entire community of 810,000 subscribers to somewhere else.

As you can imagine there are a number of legal professionals who moderate that sub, and they really don't take kindly to being threatened. They sign off their reopening message with "Fuck /u/Spez and long live John Oliver." but for the real fun you might want to look up a very famous British legal case they reference, Arkell v Pressdram 1971.

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[–] Litigant-In-Person@kbin.social 121 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (27 children)

Hello, mod here. I am glad you enjoyed our post. It felt appropriate.

Comments were also made to the admins in modmail directly too.

vows to move the entire community off Reddit

Regarding migration, we are obviously open to different options., though perhaps "vowing" is a bit strong.

We have also made https://kbin.social/m/legal/ and https://feddit.uk/c/legaladviceuk (edit: also https://feddit.uk/c/legaladvice)

These are not active yet, and they might never be, but they are options we are looking at.

[–] static@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

You do know that you can visit kbin from lemmy, and lemmy from kbin? You don't have to choose 1 of the 2.

[–] Litigant-In-Person@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Had no idea what-so-ever :)

[–] static@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I subscribed to the lemmy, it's here : https://kbin.social/m/legaladviceuk@feddit.uk
With how federation works only new posts from now on will be synchronised, not the history.

[–] Litigant-In-Person@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Christ, we're gonna have to learn how a whole infrastructure set up works.

[–] Sam_uk@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

@Litigant-In-Person@kbin.social

Yeah, but it's not that consequential whether you choose a good Lemmy instance or a good Kbin instance.

As a Kbin Stan I prefer this interface, the community is new, without some of the Tankie baggage/ perception of Lemmy.

@losttourist @static

[–] static@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

syncing to other lemmy's and kbins is not that big of a problem if you're popular, the first subscriber from an instance will be quick
you mod everything on the main instance.

[–] LollerCorleone@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On top of the other replies, here is a short and simple video explaining the basic concept behind the fediverse (which is the umbrella term used to describe the network which Lemmy and kbin instances are part of)

https://framatube.org/w/9dRFC6Ya11NCVeYKn8ZhiD?start=1m37s

PS: The link above is to a Peertube instance, which is the fediverse alternative for YouTube.

[–] Litigant-In-Person@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@LollerCorleone Much appreciated, thank you!

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