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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, 90% of them will happily stay on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Right now yes. But I think they point that things shift a bit will be when 3rd party apps and mod tools are more fleshed out. If Lemmy keeps up with moderate growth until then I think we could see a significant portion of posters moving here. Not saying most, but enough that communities could thrive. We don’t need millions of users.