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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 (3 children)

@CanadaPlus

I changed them to -

and now the links no longer work, lol

404 Not found

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

lemmy uses /c/ kbin uses /m/

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

In the end the url structure is not important.

Just use search:
on kbin you would search on something like "[email protected]"
on lemmy you need to search prefixed with a !, "[email protected]"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It may be easier if you hosted your own Lemmy instance and guiding Redditor’s to that, check out oracle always free tier, I believe you can get a 24GB RAM Arm 4 OCPUs, which is definitely enough spec to hit the ground running with a few thousands subscribers. If you end up needing higher spec than that, you could start a donation pot, giving the help the sub provides, I feel safer in saying you’d get enough donations.

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/a-powerful-server-from-oracle-cloud-always-free-cbc73d9fbfee?source=linkShare-e81cdeaa1304-1687204896

You get a wan IP too, you just need to buy an instance domain, exactly the same as buying any other domain and point it to you IP.

It would be the most seamless way to migrate imv, don’t have to deal with both kbins problems and potential problems of Lemmy, where you aren’t in control of the server hosting all your material.

Happy to try and assist, pro bono, if you like this idea and need my help.

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

Mmm. On Lemmy you can look at the comment source code, but in case you can't on Kbin:

[Federated link to the UK one](/c/[email protected]).

[Federated link to the generic one](/c/[email protected]).

[Federated link to the Kbin one](/m/[email protected]).

If you do it that way, Lemmy at least will fill in whichever instance the user is on, so they can participate. On the bright side, they clearly fixed the "can't respond to Kbin users" issue.

The 404 thing is probably instance-specific.