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I imagine they are in damage control mode and are hoping to stem the outflow of users' attention spans to the Lemmyverse while their current actions are the Current Thing.
I reckon they are budgeting for a 1-2 week martial law period to try and stabilise and will probably force open all the closed subs and make use of repost and chatGPT bots to simulate decent engagement, possibly even paying for comments too.
It would also be very interesting if they roll back on their censorship of open discussion of certain topics to attract back previously "resettled" users.
Imma be real, this sounds like you're massively overestimating the amount of people that actually care about this whole thing.
The casual reddit user would be back once their favorite subs are back online and will go about their day like before.
Maybe once the third party apps shut down and people really don't want to move to the official app you might get something.
I got no idea what would happen if enough mods quit, and a lot of subs couldn't run properly anymore. For the biggest subs you might get paid mods from reddit themselves, but no idea what will happen to the smaller subs.
The casual reddit user just lurks though. If the active users move, the quality of the site will go down (even more).