[DantesKite]

It's not clear to me the Reddit users will be permanently gone either, unless there's some place like Reddit taking in a lot more users right now.

But I haven't heard of any place like that so far. No real competitor for users to jump ship towards.

[georgeburdell]

Or maybe people will realize they were not happy with the amount of time they were spending on Reddit and go habituate themselves to something completely different with that time.

[clnq]

That was always allowed.

And yet, very many people are terminally online in one way or another. Even if the term "terminally online" has very strong stigma and most people would not consider to be a part of that group, they still spend hours every day on social media, and have no means of quitting it even knowing the harmful effects.

[ilikecakeandpie]

Those folks are likely going back to Facebook/IG/Twitter/TikTok etc.

If they're craving content and don't want to spend the time going to distinct sites, they're likely not going to all of a sudden pick up a new hobby. I hope I'm wrong.