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.
Nah, 90% of them will happily stay on Reddit.
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.
Yeah, we’re weeks in and there’s still people walking in to threads that are either somehow completely oblivious, proudly don’t care, or are outright angry that their experience is being interrupted. Apparently the overwhelming majority of reddit users do not use third party apps.