In my opinion, the Reddit Blackout was essentially moderators acting as a personal army for app developer.
Even goes the ancient rules of redditquitte
Ask people to Troll others on Reddit, in real life, or on other blogs/sites. We aren’t your personal army.
Reddit never offered a chance for apps to pay; this became very clear during negotiations.
Mods left because a lot of moderator tools developed by moderators requires API access and Reddit was very slow to develop acceptable internal tools. At that point, a lot of mods got frustrated and left.
The vast majority of mods, including the organisers of blackout, are still using Reddit.
I didn’t say all mods.
You might be right, but I moderated three subs and haven’t been back since June (or whenever it was they killed my app)