When all the subs went private for the blackout it caused Reddit to crash. Suggests that it’s a resource-intensive task for their backend.
Edit: this is hypothetical btw
Maybe. When they did “the snap” and banned half of everyone from r/thanosdidnothingwrong they did it slowly to not overload the servers.
Why did they ban them?
In honour of Thanos wanting to halve the universe’s population, the subreddit banned half of the users that were subbed/active; About ~350k banned from the sub.
Did… Did this really happen?
It was a while ago now but yeah, I do remember that being kind of a big thing.
I think users have also been uploading massive files of white noise to Reddit… Louis Rossmann spoke about this during a recent video:
https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/reddit-ceo-learns-going-to-war-with-the:9?t=87
