Will this undermine most of what makes IAmA special? Probably. But Reddit leadership has all the funds they need to hire people to perform those extra tasks we formerly undertook as volunteer moderators, and we’d be happy to collaborate with them if they choose to do so.
This is what makes Lemmy a better platform IMO, it’s far more community oriented and far less revenue/profit oriented. “You’re a mod who wants to get paid? Yeah join the club, we’re losing money on server costs.”