Ah well, I’ll put my energy into Lemmy and Fediverse projects instead.
I think this is a better place than Reddit already. It's fairly new and people are excited about creating content. But I think in reality, sooner or later every sub will be forced to open, and everything will go back to normal. Of course some of the users would've completely migrated to the Fediverse or other platforms, and it's up to us whether the Fediverse survives or not.
It was great thinking IMO. They just care about the advertisements and investors. They don’t care about who will watch what content.