I do think there will be a lot of alternate ways to interact with the blockchain. As to reddit... I've been using it for about 5 years. I've seen things shift and change there quite a bit. I have 170 Post Karma, and 6199 Comment Karma. So I am familiar with it.
I am unfamiliar with @dots and what is occurring with them. You may want to link me to some post that explains that situation or I may just need to check out the #dots tag.
I tended (prior to steem) to hang our in r/libertarian, r/anarcho_capitalism, r/conspiracy, r/gaming, r/pcmasterrace, r/linuxmasterrace, r/gamedev, r/unity3d, r/energy, and miscellaneous others... also have r/news and r/worldnews in my feed but didn't tend to post much in them. r/technology I would post and comment in occasionally.