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Today is the coordinated reddit "protest" day. Some ideas off the top of my head...

DDOS activity from pissed off stakeholders related to the protest

System ops using their access to further blackout action

A botched administrative action to reopen subs

I have to imagine that many people are deleting all of their comments / submissions.

I can't imagine the DB load of hundreds of thousands of people deleting all their comments. https://shreddit.com/

It's very likely that a deletion at reddit is just setting "is_deleted" to true in a row, not actually a proper DB removal.

What about rebuilding the caches for all those years old threads?

correct, if you do the data export for your account you get all of the deleted comments/submissions in the resulting zip.

I can't imagine the DB load of hundreds of thousands of people deleting all their comments. https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit

Maybe they wanted to hide the protesting subs by making all reddit black out.