It's clear they are trying to turn reddit into a new legacy media platform where the information and narrative is controlled at the top. I don't think it will be very effective, the country is too fragmented now including our online networks.

https://github.com/mkornreich/old_reddit still works to make Reddit look like old Reddit

August 5th post OP;

Discussion on more recent developments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913588