Looking at this site-wide blackout planned (100M+ users affected), it’s clear that if reddit could halt the moderators from protesting the would.

If their entire business can be held hostage by a few power mods, then it’s in their best interest to reduce risk.

Reddit almost 2 decades worth flagged content for various reasons. I could see a future in which all comments are first checked by a LLM before being posted.

Using AI could handle the bulk of automation and would then allow moderation do be done entirely by reddit in-house or off-shore with a few low-paid workers as is done with meta and bytedance.