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

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    1 year ago

    Yes, in case it isn’t clear it was a reference to the movie Avengers: Infinity War where the main villain Thanos’s goal was to assemble a weapon that allowed him to snap his fingers and kill half of all life in the universe.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah it was clear, it’s just that it never ceases to surprise me what silly stuff the internate can generate