Sorry not sure which community to really post in since I'm not that active but I think labour would probably be most appropriate. But if you check out that thread the comment that made me think of hexbear was 8baked17's. That user is acknowledging the need to mitigate their community off of reddit to avoid repression/ counter narrative work that reddit deploys.
"This movement needs to get off of social media ASAP and organized on an independent, transparent AND MOST IMPORTANTLY A NON-PROFIT PLATFORM, be it online or offline, before the collective voices get drowned out by garbage content spam and bots."
I wonder if it might be productive for the mod team here to reach out to their mod team and discuss this possibility or if the community here/ the wider community here has any thoughts to share about such a possibility. I know this is a much smaller space and I admittedly don't know if this would even be feasible from a technological standpoint but I have not floated this on reddit and have only put this here since this is much smaller community and should have primacy in deciding whether this would be a workable option or if it would have too many detrimental effects here.
For my part, I think these people are radicalizing HARD in real time and this might be a golden opportunity to channel some of this into forward-thinking channels and possibly put them onto some other related shit that needs to be addressed as well.
I still think other subreddits under the umbrella of antiwork, tying that amorphous idea to theory and materialism without the r/antiwork mods, is going to be the best path at the moment. When it first came on the radar of the site subreddits like r/leftantiwork were created. Eventually reddit might ratfuck or ban everything under the banner of antiwork even if there aren't the same mods in control of the different subreddits, but that would be a new level of escalation for the website. It would be more of a propaganda win than banning one specific subreddit for some arbitrary rule violation if they say "this idea in general is banned" while allowing COVID denialism and fascism as long as they keep hopping subreddits. It would also inflame users enough that they'd be more on board with leaving the website altogether. As it stands, if you mention hexbear in an explicitly socialist subreddit like r/trueanon there's a flood of r/redscarepod and r/cumtown regulars who jump on the comment like harpies to ramble about what they think Hexbear is like. Each new episode of drama reinforces their narrative while undermining our streak of stability so a sudden influx of users is a sudden influx of chances for shit to kick off.
If we all made some specialized antiwork subreddits, Reddit would probably autoban them because our accounts used to post on /r/chapotraphouse. We could use that drama lol