This is the correct take. It's over for Anki. Even assuming a best case scenario where the status quo remains and AnkiWeb continues to be "free", all the valuable data collected in AnkiWeb is now ripe for paywalling & potential abuse. The AnkiWeb privacy policy is likely to undergo a change quite soon - https://ankiweb.net/account/privacy
A really disappointing development all around & I hope it galvanizes the community to fully disassociate itself from AnkiHub & dae.
I'm hopeful this new company wont ruin anki, but assuming they do, how do I find the "new anki" fork and how do I contribute.
Is there a community / anki forum that hasn't been acquired?
Personally what I did is pop over to the Anki github repo and star it. You can also get notifications.
One thing I notice is that it does seem to have a large group of contributors. It's hard to imagine the desktop app will die completely.