Discord is a walled garden without any search indexing.

All knowledge is rotting in there unfortunately.

I don't think this "burn it all down" mentality is helpful.

Presumably the mods are protesting because they want a good Reddit/subreddit experience, and the new policies are hurting that. How is handing power over to someone who is supportive of Reddit's new policies helping that?

Out of its ashes, something new will take its place.

I was a former lead mod a year ago of a large subreddit. I saw the writing on the wall THEN, and took the sub private, and booted the other mods I brought in. I then started purging content.

Not a few hours later, the other 2 mods I invited in messaged the admins, and removed my moderatorship and then banned my account.

Those subreddits, no matter how many "mod kudos" you have, were never yours, are never yours, and will always be digital sharecropping.

Burn it to the ground. Power is the ONLY message the admins and C levels understand.

Export the data, then put it on a federated / standalone alternative first.

Otherwise, you're just burning digital books.

I'm curious to see what happens when people start following this advice (it's really the only reasonable path forward), and then what happens with the inevitable lawsuits about how reddit "owns" the content that the authors are "pirating".

Why don't you start up a new subreddit, and let in the thousands of people begging for it to reopen? Nobody's forcing you to stare at the "this sub is private" page all day if you're pissed about people actually using what little power they have to fight back against a corporation trying to monetize the way you and your community socializes.