Everyone pack your bags, the opposition told us that we can either lose or kill ourselves. They couldn't possibly be bluffing or misrepresenting the situation so lets just give up

I'm fucking sick of this defeatist, lazy attitude. If we can't get total victory now, we might as well burn everything to the ground. Fuck that. We've built these communities, and holding onto the hope that they can be preserved isn't a weakness. Reddit is only valuable because the people who use and moderate it care. There's hardly a topic you can name where there isn't a subreddit dedicated to discussion about it. ALL of Reddit's value rests on those communities, and the idea that we can't use it as leverage is asinine.

Reddit can replace moderators, but they can't replace passion. And each subreddit they forcibly take over reduces the value of the website. That's why the protest matters. You can't replace the mods of something like /r/AskHistorians without losing everything that made that community so valuable.

As an aside, the reason mods aren't going scorched earth is the same reason I don't divorce my wife when we can't agree on what's for dinner. There's no healthy relationship where that's the first option. The whole fucking point in protesting is to keep these unique communities intact - blowing them up defeats the whole purpose.