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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] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Obviously I'm biased and would love to see the subreddit end up in the fediverse, but I'm glad you guys are taking your time and trying to figure out what medium and what platform is the best fit for what y'all do.

If legaladvice is available on feddit.uk, you should try to snag that, too. As a UK-based (or focused -- I know servers are often hosted in other countries than the users they serve) instance, the UK is already in the domain. Though, I also get why you might want it right there in the community handle directly, given how which website a given community is hosted on is not always crystal clear in the current site designs.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just grabbed https://feddit.uk/c/legaladvice too, thanks for the comment/suggestion.

I am cautious of taking ownership too much, as we might not end up using them and wouldn't want to domain-squat, so in theory I would be open to letting other people take control or decide to moderate them if they felt they were fully invested.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can always ask the admin to purge the communities if you end up not using them. That will release the name for others to pick up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That is very good to know too!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Probably don't even need to ask. I'm sure that eventually we'll come up with a means to snag dead communities, as there's gonna be tons of them.