I’ve seen this happen in other reddit alternatives before. Usually fascists and/or feds will organize and set up themselves the communities for the communists with them as moderators. They let these communities fill up with actual communists, and then they call on their buddies to come in and brigade, while they do nothing about it or even silence the communists. The community is then taken over by them, the communists become demoralized and the platform loses the majority of its users.

I think it’s a scheme to both keep Reddit alive and to prevent communists from having their own place to organize. Sometimes they even brag about it as having “trollled” the communists.