You may already know that Reddit boasts a massive and dedicated user base. With communities on every topic imaginable, it's a place where millions and millions of people get into on a regular basis.

On June 12, 2023, a major Reddit protest began. The protest sees over 3,500 subreddits “going dark” to protest new site policies. For at least the next 48 hours, huge chunks of Reddit will not work.

Reddit was down — it had a huge global outage that was shortlived. According to Downdetector, more than 100,000 outage reports poured in, and the company ...