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.
Hello, mod here. I am glad you enjoyed our post. It felt appropriate.
Comments were also made to the admins in modmail directly too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lemmy and Kbin are hopefully gonna grow and become better than Reddit has ever been, but they’re not there yet and will be a while before it happens. Specifically, moderation tools in both platforms are reportedly weak at the moment, with a long list of features yet to be implemented. So while i do want the so-called Threadiverse growing, if you’re in a moderating hotspot as your post mentions, you might wanna consider this detail and check if the current tools as present are good enough or not, it might be enough for your needs with what exists already but frankly the subs I’ve modded have been tiny and i don’t have the mental model to tell you if they are already.
I too urge you to not choose Discord for this community for all the reasons stated. Plus it’s the wrong tool for the job, it’s “chat”, not “forums”, it’s by it’s nature impermanent and for ephemeral conversation. Hell, a good old forum will be miles better than Discord for this.
@jherazob
Yes, definitely - thats why we have made the spaces but are not migrating over for sure, we’re just exploring options.
You do know that you can visit kbin from lemmy, and lemmy from kbin? You don’t have to choose 1 of the 2.
Had no idea what-so-ever :)
I subscribed to the lemmy, it’s here : https://kbin.social/m/legaladviceuk@feddit.uk
With how federation works only new posts from now on will be synchronised, not the history.
Christ, we’re gonna have to learn how a whole infrastructure set up works.
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.
@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
For what my 2c are worth, I think legaladviceuk is probably the clearest in terms of discoverability. Despite a community existing on a UK-focused instance, it’s ambiguous as to whether it’s UK specific.
In the end though, it probably doesn’t matter too much, as long as the instance is being actively maintained and is in tune with the values of the community.
Setting up your own instance would actually probably be the best idea but if there’s no one technical around to maintain it I’m not sure it would work out.