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I guarantee by next week most subs will be open again, forcibly or otherwise.

I wouldn't be surprised too much if Reddit (or others) would begin pumping GPT conversations onto dead subs like this one to make it look real.

I don't think anyone has a reasonable belief otherwise. Part of the point is to make reddit take that drastic of an action against its own users by removing mods and forcing subreddits to reopen.

The average user won't think about it as a drastic action at all because they will neither know nor care about the blackouts and subsequent re-openings.

They will even the subs become a cesspool of spam and low effort content

No, of course Reddit will recruit mods before they forcibly retake the subs and demod the current mods.

I don’t use Reddit, but I did occasionally read Ask Historian threads when they were linked from other places on the internet:

Good luck trying to find the actual historians that made the subreddit worth visiting (many often mods themselves, I presume) once said mods are demoted and policies are changed.

The AskHistorians mods themselves have said that there's no alternative. One way or another, they will be back. As for the rest of the subs that do not need subject matter experts, like r/funny, their demodding will not matter.

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