Quality would absolutely drop. Even if whoever replaced the mods was just as enthusiastic, losing that much institutional knowledge/inertia would be devastating for a while.

Can always transfer those helpful posts to an indexed blog. Or here? Is Lemmy indexed?

Looking for this as well. Knew I wouldn't be the only one.

E: Even when sorting by 'Top Day/Week' the top posts get pushed down by new ones.

The worst timeline.