The instance you make your account on doesn’t matter, as they’re federated you can see and interact with posts from anywhere else.

You can check out the Lemmy community browser to see a list of the most visited communities, then search for them in https://lemmy.world/search to subscribe/post/comment. (note: beehaw.org communities arent accessible from lemmy.world, so ignore those)

They can’t be replaced in this case - unless Reddit wants to spend lots of $$$ hiring moderators. As long as they leave that power to community mods, it is impossible for them to stop this type of protest.

I do think there is a real possibility Reddit will consider this a long-term risk and replace them with paid mods.

what it tells me is that it’s finally having a financial impact

Update for anyone wondering: Around 58% of the initial protest userbase has gone dark permanently (at the time of writing).

Many have gone public only to run polls on how to proceed, so that number is expected to increase.

I’ve heard several advertisers are reconsidering spending with Reddit, they didn’t realize the community had this much power over the site (which introduces more risk for them.) Hopefully that has some effect.