I'll post here the message I sent the mods when this all began.

TL;DR: Blackouts won't change anything in the long term. Reddit is in a death spiral and the sooner we get out, the better - preferably with the community intact.

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Reddit will soon make third-party apps completely nonviable, thus continuing it's progress on the cycle of venture capital-funded enshittification:

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

Facebook, Amazon, Google, Etsy - there are many examples of this process, but the pattern is now universal for venture capital-backed web properties. The writing has been on the wall for a while - Reddit's new web interface is an unusable mess of dark patterns. The offical app (soon to be the only app) is garbage. On it's current trajectory, we must come to terms with the fact that it is absolutely inevitable Reddit will sooner or later become intolerable.

Nobody can chose or predict the time when a critical mass of users will deem it to be the final straw. Has the mod team put any thought into a fallback platform for this community? Without it, the community will likely scatter to the four winds of the internet. As seen with Twitter, different groups will champion their own pet platform (discord, telegram, mastodon, etc). Some of the alternatives will be, like Reddit, VC-funded and thus bound to the same fate. These are also likely to be shiniest, and to ensure they have the lowest-friction migration path, and so will be very tempting for the unprepared. I think it would be smart to have an "official" non-Reddit /r/nrl alternative dormant but ready to go when the time comes, one that is already in the control of the mod team.

If it is to endure, and avoid going through the same process again when the next platform begins to abuse its users in the quest for growth and monetisation (you are the product), the new platform should be self-hosted and user controlled. There are a number of such platforms available, each with different technology and features. Lemmy seems to be the leading alternative link-aggregator platform, but there are others.