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This is one of the things I've always hated about Reddit.
No, Reddit, this isn't my fault. You broke because you're a shitty website held together by chewing gum and prayers. It isn't cute when you blame users for your own shortcomings. You've been like this since the beginning and it hasn't gotten better. Fuck off.
7:40am Pacific Time - People just woke up to a shitstorm. LOL
Check at 6:00am PCT and All page was mostly whitepopletwitter and gaming. It in no way looked like your typical day of popular /all on the home page.
Love to see it. Total meltdown, lol
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
I posted somewhere that it's taken down Kbin and Hacker News too.
Reddit probably be like "we had sooooo many users these days that our servers went out. But we cannot provide any numbers, we lost all the server data"
But do we know why it was down? If it was something like a ddos (or claimed to be) this could be used to vilify the protestors.
Lol, imagine your site crashing during it's lowest utilization in years.
Okay my theory:
Idk about other countries but here Reddit is pretty much the only big social media platform that isnβt overrun by normies and boomers. So people from my country using reddit are either relatively young people that are somewhat chronically online or people or techies.
Now the reddit blackout generated a lot of attention and all the normies and boomers are like βwtf is a redditβ and go to check it out. So that just ddosβd reddit.
I have zero evidence for my theory but I really like it.
Oh no
Anyway
If you can't beat 'em... Fuck 'em!
I mean, if I was a reddit infra engineer (and this is a long shot because I'm not), I would definitely use the "blackout day(s)" for some heavy maintenance or experiments that normally are too scary to do on a high loaded live server.
(edit: spelling)
