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Too soon to tell just yet. A lot of things still need to happen for reddit to fall. We need then to not cave so the subs stay closed and users can migrate here but we also need to be able to handle the influx of users. On the other hand if reddit just removes the mods from the subreddits and replaces them with complicit ones and reopens everything then we would need enough people to be pissed off at such an action to not go back to using reddit and still we need to be able to handle the iinflux of users. Last situation is people go back to reddit temporarily until reddit IPOs and it turns into such a dumpster fire from new rules/restrictions that people just leave
They have a hard enough time finding mods even when people aren't mad at them. They may be able to take on some of the biggest subs, but they won't be able to find new mods for most of the smaller ones.
They don't have to find mods for all the smaller subs. The top like 200 subs is all they really need in the short term, probably even less. Those are the subs that make it to the front page constantly. The ones that have the most likes,comments. Those post are what everyone sees on r/popular which millions of people just use reddit to scroll through to see whats on the front page to see if anything interesting is going on. If they can get the top 200 subreddits reliably working that will mean more then the other like 6000 protesting
I think you underestimate how many mods are required to successfully keep the top 200 subs from being inundated by crap. It's likely hundreds of people, maybe even a thousand.