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.

we did it reddit

Some possibilities:

• Some fool thinks it's a good idea to DDoS Reddit today to make a point.
• Some Reddit admin thinks it's a good idea to take it offline deliberately to make a point.
• The general public are hugging it to death out of curiosity about the protest.
• Unrelated outage. Outages happen, sometimes even on the same day as other things.

I've used rif and old.reddit respectively for so long that I really had no idea how much of a shitshow the ui had turned in too until I checked it out through the official app and new layout style in browser.

No fucking thank you, take your glitter shit and constant ad pushing and jump off a cliff.

The first ad that popped was a promoted post for machine gun kelly. I listen to grindcore, crossover, metal, etc.. That sealed its fate in my eyes.

Reddit has long survived with the help of pornography makers. Reddit does not face a quick death.

It's my fault apparently

I'm guessing hundreds of thousands of uninformed users are getting blocked from subreddits and are constantly retrying.

I hope the major subs stay dark. The only thing keeping reddit afloat is moderators. Without tools the mods would need full time paid positions which is never going to happen. I'd like to see them all burn. Its become a shit show of adds and bots now anyway. Good riddance. I wish someone would incorporate freenets web of trust system to some type of decentralized app like this.

Chances Reddit did this on purpose to hide the content blackout?

Maybe they just ran out of money and their hosting provider shut them down? Reddit was so desperate with these API fees