I think you're misunderstanding how Reddit works. Without the 2% contributors and the moderators there's nothing. There's three hard things about community-base

I think you're misunderstanding how Reddit works. Without the 2% contributors and the moderators there's nothing. There's three hard things about community-based platforms: moderation, content creation, users. Reddit has all three, but it's about to lose the first two, in which case it won't work.