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Reddit Migration

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### About Community Tracking and helping #redditmigration to Kbin and the Fediverse. Say hello to the decentralized and open future. To see latest reeddit blackout info, see here: https://reddark.untone.uk/

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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] 114 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

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

@LollerCorleone Much appreciated, thank you!

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