Agreed that it’s probably not productive for reducing traffic. That being said, I think the novelty will wear off.
Also, this whole situation is just amplifying the protest’s message (landed gentry lol). His 180° decision to threaten the removal of protesting mods just boosts my favorite internet phenomenon - the Streisand effect!
Have you deleted your Reddit account yet?
Personally I'm waiting for the 30th. I have a dream of crashing their servers with account deletion requests
Malicious Compliance on Reddit in a nutshell (feddit.de)
Source: comment thread in r/interestingasfuck stating that it has now become a 'porn sub'. It only for nsfw because they also do malicious compliance.