I agree about the opportunity; however, Of the ~5k subreddits that went dark, almost all of them will go back with the lights on either on purpose or by force by the Reddit Admins, but Moderation will decline significantly.

Additionally, there are at least three types of users: volunteers, contributors, and consumers. I think most of the volunteers (mods and devs) see the writing on the wall and know the fate of Digg, so they are already moving and most are trying to ramp up lemmy (and maybe a few other sites incase lemmy cant handle it). I think most of the contributors have seen that Reddit has reduced in quality over the last few years, and are taking this chance to migrate: trying to figure out how to contribute on lemmy with basic content. I think the consumers who can’t figure out how to set up a new account without hand holding will stay on the new “spam filled reddit” and will be left wondering why the social media scene is nothing but bots and mindless scroll.