If the community is as important to the users as you believe them to be then those who truly do value the resources of the community will move.

I value the resources of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH and /r/piracy over the years so much that I came to lemmy. I didn’t see /r/piracy’s initial plans to do an indefinite shutdown as something that would hurt me, but something I fully supported and was more than happy to join them on lemmy to find a new home.

Reddit was why I found communities like those two, but reddit was not what I needed for them to always have to be on. Those who don’t feel the same will just run off to whatever other piracy resource is there regardless of whether mods or removed or different.

So I guess what I’m trying to say as one of the regular people is you don’t need to worry so much about hurting us. And to us this wasn’t just a fight over communities but stuff like the freedom to use third party apps and great third party extensions like RES. I didn’t want to have to use the terrible reddit website on my phone to interact with my communities, or have to use their spyware official app. I was happy mods were willing to fight for users like us who didn’t have any power at all.

They never went away for pirate/jailbreak communities. But, lot of hobbyists ones seem to have gone away, so reason pirate ones remain could be due to the nature of the scene.