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.
Right now yes. But I think they point that things shift a bit will be when 3rd party apps and mod tools are more fleshed out. If Lemmy keeps up with moderate growth until then I think we could see a significant portion of posters moving here. Not saying most, but enough that communities could thrive. We don’t need millions of users.
You need just enough to sustain a conversation and for the place not to turn into a cesspool
Ya I think the sweet spot was around right before digg migration. Top posts of the day received like 1-2k upvotes. This sight is probably only 5-15% of that time. But it’s a good start. And good apps etc could get it there.
2009:
https://web.archive.org/web/20090723105958/http://www.reddit.com/