They’re removing the mods that keep it closed and install whomever they choose to run the newly reopened subreddit. That or sufficiently threaten the mods in place into making it open. Bad optics either way

They are sending mods messages that they need to open up their subs or they will replace them with mods who will open them.

Either open it up or they’d do the same they did on /r/piracy, ask if any of the mods is up to reopen the sub and remove the ones who aren’t. Like this https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35555

There is a PSA Announcement at /r/Steam that reads:

As ya’ll likely know, we’ve been dark to support the blackout against reddit’s antagonistic behavior towards its own userbase.

The admins sent us a message today saying we must open or get removed, so here we are.

For those of you browsing this subreddit on non-official apps (Reddit is Fun, Apollo, Sync, Boost, etc), they will break on July 1st due to reddit’s new policies.

We’re opening back up but will leave permanent stickies in the subreddit and threads to keep folks in the know.

Our Discord server is active, don’t forget to check it out.

Good luck and god speed.

The big admins just flip a flag somewhere. Probably remove the existing mods or threaten to do so if they close it again. I would then assume that either way the mods aren’t going to be giving reddit free labor any more. Not sure what reddit’s plan is to moderate at that point. Maybe get a scab mod to run things or something.