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Yes, good point. I really feel something like this is more of a building surge, rather than a tsunami. A lot of us leaving is not going to sink them in the near term, but they will slowly see an erosion of quality posts and more importantly quality comments. I've heard they really want to monetize access to all the conversations for data harvesting, and if the overall quality of that drops, the whole thing is worth a lot less.
That's why the blackout really needs to be indefinite.
I agree. Let's see if the mods have the stomach to keep the subreddit's dark indefinitely. I also wonder if Reddit will just take over the larger subs and install new mods?
I see it ending up like Facebook