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.
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.