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It's unclear how useful aggregate post and comment totals are in terms of measuring the effect of the blackout on content.
I feel comfortable saying that 80% of Reddit content on my subscribed subreddits has no impact on my day or understanding of life. Thus, the question becomes what 20% has been lost.
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
The real Digg>Reddit type exodus happens when people start saying "all the good content on Reddit is just reposts from (insert federated instance)". I don't think this blackout in and of itself will do it, but it's another domino on the path to destruction for them. If we're lucky.