Ha. First thing I compared it to as well. It's a micro-storm in a very large tea-cup. Reddit will survive and the tiny and temporary (and already abandoned) actions of a few mods might shoot a few people off to Voat or another site but it won't do anything for the vast majority.

Whoops, that's what I was trying to post :)

the last week results are weirdly oscillating https://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-GB&q=Reddit+alte...

I think there is something real there, look at this: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-GB&q=Reddit+alte...

You could probably see these trends as evidence of discontent, and from this view, reddit discontent is growing.