In my opinion, the Reddit Blackout was essentially moderators acting as a personal army for app developer.
Even goes the ancient rules of redditquitte
Ask people to Troll others on Reddit, in real life, or on other blogs/sites. We aren’t your personal army.
If it was an app developer who precipitated it, so what? It had to be someone. That does not invalidate the choice of everyone else who participated in it. If you’re going to hold an unpopular opinion, it should be a better one.
The mods forced their choice upon the users of Reddit.
Plus it was a stupid concept since to find an active subreddit person just had to go to /r/all
Taking a look at r/all one day, after many years of only seeing carefully-chosen subs that were actually good, was definitely one of the things that got me to finally quit.
I choose to quit for munch different reasons because moderators are dumb.
I got banned from /r/news simply because the British Broadcasting Corporation choose to change the title of the article…