[29athrowaway]

Reddit is built on volunteers and those volunteers are unhappy.

Large subreddits simply cannot work without moderation. When that happens, Reddit is forced to close them.

So either Reddit replaces all mods with AI in the short term, or brings back the mods, or just ceases to exist.

[tastyfreeze]

The bullet was already fired by Reddit. With the size of Reddit it will take years for the site to join the pile of sites that have faded to irrelevance. But, at this point it is inevitable.