I think if yc fell, communities may segregate a bit into different interest groups.
I’m sure there’s a few yc quality subreddit’s also, If you can stand the user hostile ux
I'd like to see a group like early $PLACE on something like IPFS or whatever to keep the bar high enough.
old.reddit.com is still available, which is only slightly user hostile. There's a setting to default to it if you're logged in, otherwise it's pretty trivial to either install an extension or write a userscript to automatically redirect you to that subdomain.
at least on mobile you can use Boost or Sync, but on desktop it's more difficult, really only old.reddit.com and experience is vastly inferior to mobile apps