Reddit can permanently ban mod doing that : /r/adviceanimals was going dark, then the admins booted the head mod and installed an admin friendly one. The excuse was “brigading”.

I’m really hoping limereader works out as the dev has a really good idea for it.

Exactly. Bring all that discussion and content over here, then we are actually in control of it. We can’t expect anything to change when Reddit thinks there’s no viable alternative.