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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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/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] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Had no idea what-so-ever :)

[–] [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!