interestingasfuck has been unmoderated and closed for weeks now. Other subs are going to get the same treatment, and going dark is worse than going NSFW. The most effective form of protest any sub can engage in at this point is forcing Reddit to fire and fail to replace them.
I guess people just don't want to moderate anymore.
Y'know, if they had walked everything back - or even just reduced API costs - right away, no one would have left. Now their top content creators have left, and nothing they do will repair the damage.
An even better strategy for Reddit would have been to prevent Spez from making public statements about it. If the protestations had been ignored it would have blown over quickly.
This is what all mods should do. Their thanks for running a community unpaid for years on end is a middle finger for not letting reddit profit off of them. Users build, foster, and maintain subreddits and reddit swoops in and declares that it's all thanks to them. Mods who get demodded should wear that fact with pride when contrasted against the ones who capitulated with similar threats.