That's the standard cycle when it comes to these migrations.

1. People get angry with the old platform.
2. People find or make a new platform.
3. People bitch about the old platform on the new platform.
4. People either go back to the old platform or stay on the new one and forget about the old one.

The amount of extra energy folks have for this is crazy. By all means, leave while making a statement, even if that statement is profanity laced. But that site is tearing itself apart just fine on its own, no assistance needed. When you start agitating on a platform that isn’t yours (and let’s be real, Reddit communities haven’t been user owned in a long time, you turn in to the asshole. Reddit may fail, may learn its lesson, or may slowly mutate into something radically different from what it is, but pour all your energy into a creative pursuit. Destruction is fun, but ultimately not very rewarding. Just my perspective.

Or just silently purge all of the subreddit's content behind the cloak of the blackout before stepping down permanently or even outright deleting the subreddit.

True that. But there are likely quieter versions of this which mods could enact, if they wanted to slowly undermine a sub. Not necessarily advocating for this approach, though malicious compliance can have its place — and certainly not the pieces of getting people to join the fediverse by spamming Reddit. Maybe it heightens awareness of the fediverse; but not sure it sets the right tone nor ultimately serves this whole venture.

You can't just keep private anymore. Reddit admins and the reddit ceo have both said they're no longer interested in maintaining a community run website. They can and will begin taking over subs and making them admin run. They're going to have to rely heavily on bots for moderation, which will obviously result in massively deteriorated quality for a significant portion of the website.

The end result is reddit rebranding itself entirely. Maybe eventually they'll do away entirely with community controlled subreddits, and instead maintain only the most popular ones. I don't trust a single thing they say anymore, but their actions show they're committed to morphing reddit into a newer corporate-centric social media. They will naturally shift to a model of scraping and selling user data to make up for what will inevitably be a massive decline in profits.

Going NSFW would do quite a bit to kill a default sub. It means only lurkers with accounts and nsfw enabled could see the posts. It would also kill more google scraping of it.

I agree. I wonder if they'll still be in trouble even if they open but require mod approval to post. Based on the first option the OP listed, they just want people to spam reddit for kbin/lemmy which is pretty cringe. There are a lot of options/alternatives out there which if people want to know about they should be shown most/all of them, instead of just one.

“If you build it, they will come.”

Law of attraction is more influential than anything - providing alternatives when/if it’s requested is enough, and contributing here!

Well said. Don’t be the bad actor in someone else’s story.

You should just make new posts of unique content instead of ripping posts from Reddit. Recycled memes doesn't make a community - interaction does

OP has the spirit, at least.

That said, malicious compliance is definitely the way. Use the mod tools provided by the website, and when that leads to massive amounts of shitposts staying up for hours/days, then change to having posts be approved by the mods. While continuing to use the mod tools to do so. Hopefully it will make the admins have to take the time to "help" with moderation, since the mods will no longer be able to keep up.

If I can't moderate effectively with the tools I'm left with, I can't guarantee that all content will be SFW at all times

Having the subreddit taken away from the mods would be a good thing, actually. Up until recently powermods with over 100 subreddits under their moderation belt were the main thing ruining the site.

If you can't mod the sub properly then the spammers will make it nsfw anyway

I used both Digg and Reddit for literally years before quitting Digg.

We know that simultaneously changing a whole bunch of subs between public and private drives reddit into the ground. Subs are not allowed to stay private or risk being taken over, but they can surely still change between the two modes provided they don't stay dark too long. So, every 48 hours simultaneously switch the subs between the two. Malicious compliance, right?

Good, let someone do my free job.

Apollo dev says he wants to move on to something else, doesn't have motivation for this. Not likely to happen.

However, other apps might convert, other apps will appear (and already are), and who knows, he might change his mind.

Personally I think if the kbin UI continues to improve I may not care much about an app. Main reason I personally used other apps is because the reddit phone app was ass, the webui sucked and was actively hostile to being used. But it'd be nice to have good options.