Sorry for the slow response. This community on Lemmy and another community elsewhere were started when the financial modelling subreddit shut down (with no specific planned reopen date) as part of the 2023 reddit protest. Following the responses to the thread linked above, the subreddit has been reopened.

For clarity, if you're on Lemmy or thinking of joining, then we at the financial modelling subreddit warmly encourage you to foster this financial modelling community on Lemmy. You're our friends. We hope you grow and do well. Your success reduces our collective dependence on any particular platform.

Hey, I replied on Squabbles so just on the bits that are additional here:

• I think we are agreed on it being a good idea to have set up the Lemmy, welcoming anyone who finds it and not pushing them to any other place, anticipating that Lemmy will probably have the fastest growth at the moment, elsewhere leaving guidance that Squabbles is the sole 'official' place for now, and that if the Reddit strike continues then there will be a public conversation to decide the new permanent 'official' home.
• On how beneficial/detrimental fragmentation is, we have different views and I think we each understand where the other is come from. We have aligned on all practical points and the rest is out of our hands, so suggest we leave it there.
• On copyright of content posted to Reddit, my understanding is that copyright lies with the author and that Reddit is automatically granted an exception. Reddit is blocked on the computer that I am using so I cannot quickly and directly check their terms just now. I just googled and the first few results aligned with my thinking but they were all from a few years ago. Where did you hear/read that copyright lies with Reddit?
• Already mentioned elsewhere, but absolutely agree that an offline backup is a great idea.

Hey tkon99, this is Levils - I created the financial modelling subreddit.

Nice work setting up this Lemmy spot as a backup, but please do not split the group by advertising it anywhere outside of Lemmy. We had to quickly choose a single place to point any hardcore modelling enthusiasts to during the reddit strike, and the chosen place was https://squabbles.io/s/FinancialModelling.

As mentioned on the first post at Squabbles:

• (I realise this is repeating part of the prior paragraph) For now please don't suggest other communities/platforms etc. The subreddit is reluctantly on strike, we do not want to split the community further. This is the campsite for the moment.
• There is a risk that the strike goes on for too long and the community splinters or permanently relocates. I hope that does not happen, and it does then we will cross that bridge together via group discussion, probably [on Squabbles].

Lemmy was considered as the interim spot and, if Reddit goes the way of Digg, then there is a good chance we end up here. It is obviously a great idea to have a financial group on Lemmy both now and on an ongoing basis, as a lot of people who sign up to any financial modelling group are moderately interested in it - they might be inclined to join if it's on a platform they are already on (whether that be Reddit or Lemmy etc) but generally not sign up to a platform just to join the financial modelling group. For the few hardcores however, please do not split them by suggesting there are multiple alternatives - currently Squabbles is the place.

So just to be clear:

• If the Reddit admin team comes around in a timely fashion and the strike ends in an orderly manner without losing too many subscribers, we'll just reopen the subreddit like normal.
• If not, then we'll have a discussion on Squabbles to decide where the 'official' permanent new home is, and there is a good chance that it will be on Lemmy.

Additionally, our one longstanding rule is 'No piracy'. If you're on board with this then please delete all the posts and comments that you copied from Reddit - in my opinion it's not ok to copy from other people like that even with the best intentions. Great if you take the time to paraphrase and give credit, but not so much if it just copying without attribution - and I authored some of the content you copied.

Finally, assuming you're on board with the piracy and copying thing, it's hard to find motivated moderators - would you like to join the team on Reddit and Squabbles? There is very little work in it, just good to have more people with mod rights so that obvious spam is more likely to be quickly removed.---