It would've been very powerful if there was a remote consensus on where to setup shop during/after the blackouts rather than framing them as a wholly temporary thing. I completely understand that that would've been tough, but imagine if Lemmy/Beehaw/whatever else was mentioned in all of the Subreddit messages about closures.
Yeah, personally I would've gladly paid a few bucks a month for an unlimited API key that I could've used in Apollo for the utility I got out of Reddit if they also had some sort of data privacy policy. Casual users could've continued to use the site or the official app that dealt out ads.