if you're talking about the Tribes... they don't scatter anything. The posts in the tribes still land on Steemit.com .. the discussions still land on Steemit.com ... a lot of people still post using Steemit.com or one of the other generic frontends and just use tribe tags to send the content to those tribes.

I suspect we're seeing a combination of some stopping posting because of the lower price when in fact they would do better to up their posting. Some are not posting in favour curation. If most or all of those were previously shit posters, then we all win on that.