I agree. A big objection was if we became big, reddit might be able to sue us.

The whole aim of this new instance is actually trying to see if we can attract some people to come onto it without having to really know what lemmy is. Feddit.uk sounded like a reddit knockoff, and having to explain it sounded confusing. If we could spread the word about the new instance without having to mention federation, as to not be intimidating, people may see the content provided from federation and be happy anyway, and not question the inner workings until they are settled.

We're making a contingency for the new instance

Unfortunately we had planned on getting the boat out before that happened. But it happened anyway. For now the instance seems to be back up, but this was a wake-up call.

Start it again on our new instance :)

It was the one we all agreed upon. Although it is better than "fake reddit UK".

Not yet, the ones higher than me are... Sorting something out.

We're currently doing various things behind the scenes - this is definitely something we'll look into when we can (might be another day or so).

Everyone who joined the publicly open matrix channel dedicated to setting up a new instance. We couldn't do it on the open web to prevent domain parking.