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The amount of projecting going on in some subreddits the past days is telling.
People are quite afraid that in fact the "leavers" won't come back.
Tbf, there are a ton of comments that I think are genuine, not projection, about the API changes and blackouts, along the lines of "who cares" and "neckbeards!". And those are the people who haven't moderated a subreddit, weren't there when old. was the default, and that I'm fine with leaving behind- the commenters who might as well be spambots.
The reality is that a LOT of reddit users are casuals who probably visit a couple of subs regularly using the official app or a web browser and are perfectly content with that. The issue, I think/hope, is that they aren’t the ones generating a lot of the content and discussion and they will lose interest in reddit when the big contributors have moved on.
I could be completely wrong and this may be a blip in the history of reddit, but I hope that it impacts them in a meaningful way. Reddit is 100% dependent on third parties generating content for them, so the leg they’re standing on is pretty fucking wobbly.
Basically, public perception of Reddit was already warped by these people, with the current exodus it's seriously just going to become memes and conspiracy theory nutjobs.