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Stepping away is sort of my plan at the moment.
I'm the solo mod of an 11K subscriber sub who posted most of the content. I took the sub private for the first 48 hours of the protest, then polled everyone to see if they wanted to keep going.
Only a third were in favor. The other two-thirds were "No" or "I don't understand and/or don't care".
I posted links to equivalent places in lemmy/kbin/discord to see if there would be any kind of migration to follow me here.
So far I have exactly one follower on lemmy, and 5 new members on discord (none of whom have interacted at all).
For now, I'm going to continue to monitor my reddit sub (to keep things in order) but will only be posting things in the fediverse. I just cant', in good conscience, keep contributing to "my" sub in the current environment. It makes me sad, to be honest; I felt a certain amount of pride in what I (we) accomplished over there.
We'll see what happens going forward.
I'm in a similar boat, except I barely used to post anything at all - ironically to avoid the toxic backlash that usually happened whenever I did, and mostly hid out in the comments - and barely anyone wants to leave. They could (not) care less. And I'm trying to see it from their POV: they just don't know, and MUCH more importantly, don't want to.
The house is burning down, and they're pulling the blankets over their heads. There's not much that can be done about it perhaps. Don't Look Up.
The responses are all "it won't affect anything anyway" (it already has), "nobody noticed the first blackout" (uh... not true), "this isn't a protest sub, lets get back to it" (why would such a thing even exist in the first place? strikes happen wherever people happen to WORK, when they are NEEDED).
But now I'm finally starting to see the difference between people who mod - i.e. offer their hard work to others - vs. people who do not. It's not as bad as I'm making it sound - it's sheer human nature, and some people have more capacity than others, like if you are in med school then you probably don't have time to mod a sub:-). But there is a difference, b/t forward-thinking people and people who wait for things to eventually trickle down to them. I wish I could help convey that thought to them, but... I already have, and now it's up to them to choose to receive it, or not.