Unless they already have moderators that are up to speed on taking care of subs that big and active, there's going to be a deluge of spam content...I hope. It would be a shame if r/videos turned into a bunch of OF and crypto spam, especially on the day of IPO. Hardcore porn on r/all as the markets open would be hilarious.

I had the exact same thought. A real shame indeed.

That would be a disaster for them. It would be "Mods are asleep, post X" taken to extreme. Any remotely contentious subreddit will be filled with crap and Lemmy will keep getting new users. I think it would be significant numbers switching, even if it takes only 2 days. And that's assuming mods will want to come back after the blackout...

>That would be a disaster for them. It would be "Mods are asleep, post X" taken to extreme.

They wouldn't be forced open with zero mods, obviously. They'll find volunteers.

I would expect that if mass demoddings happen though you would see some sort of weird civil war on Reddit emerge though where outraged users would support spamming these subs in the way you describe specifically to ensure that their prophecy is fulfilled. You can even see people hoping for it in this thread already.

They already found volunteers before. Those volunteers with significant personal investment are effectively going on a strike.

Finding replacement volunteers with no experience and short notice is unlikely to work well... and worse if they include people with an agenda against the current mods.

Who would volunteer for that though? Modding is hard. Good mods make a good sub.

Can't they just close registration for a while, and ban the spammers?