Watching the Reddark stream, I’m surprised how many huge subs there are that I’ve never heard of after 12+ years on Reddit. Many of them I would’ve subscribed to.
Too bad we’ll never get to experience all those communities ☹️ (until they migrate here of course)
They have a hard enough time finding mods even when people aren’t mad at them. They may be able to take on some of the biggest subs, but they won’t be able to find new mods for most of the smaller ones.
They don’t have to find mods for all the smaller subs. The top like 200 subs is all they really need in the short term, probably even less. Those are the subs that make it to the front page constantly. The ones that have the most likes,comments. Those post are what everyone sees on r/popular which millions of people just use reddit to scroll through to see whats on the front page to see if anything interesting is going on. If they can get the top 200 subreddits reliably working that will mean more then the other like 6000 protesting
I think you underestimate how many mods are required to successfully keep the top 200 subs from being inundated by crap. It’s likely hundreds of people, maybe even a thousand.