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I think most of this is spot on, but the hearsay was that the subreddits who did participate in the shutdown were threatened with an ultimatum, which while I don't think is possible to prove either way, hints that it would have happened regardless. Tho I'm usually all-too-ready to don my tinfoil hat when it comes to reddit trying to look appealing to investors; I witnessed a number of hentai/porn subreddits get banned and users actively request to become new mods only to be ignored.
Even if you discount the mods, there's definitely a certain inertia you see in groups like this (like what's going on with Discord right now) -- people don't want to leave in part because they've got their little in-group and don't want to have to go through finding or founding a new group elsewhere. I think it's particularly prevalent with those niche communities that don't ever really break containment; the community would already be small enough without fracturing to the eight winds. I'm liking Lemmy so far but as I am trying to drum up activity in one of those niche communities (RWBY), it's kind of disheartening how little relative traffic there is across the place.