That Reddit will not shut down. It will take the hit and go on and probably make at least some money. Only, it will be a much different place, more like Facebook or Instagram, in that it will be full of ads and less specific information.
It will cease to be a different, often niche space and become just another, more generalized social for a more generalized public.
In short: we, aka the people who migrated, simply are not their intended target anymore.
On the subject, I found @gonzo0815 's post very interesting and more detailed than my summary😅 (link https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/25185/A-few-thoughts-about-the-blackout-and-the-future-development)
Let’s not poison ourself, thinking on “how to make them pay”. Let’s move on, and enjoy the new internet spaces we are building!
The Reddit we all used to know is dead and gone. It used to be an incredibly flexible platform for developers, mods, and users but apparently it’s not “profitable” enough to keep that. Reminds me of how Apple designs their platforms; keep users in a predefined box and make it very difficult to customize the user experience meaningfully.
I still prefer for Reddit to exist though. If not for anything else but to keep bots, spam, and malicious users away from smaller sites and overloading them. I am not too upset that the remaining Reddit mods will have to deal with that.