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Answer: They are under the false impression that having the digital equivalent of a temper tantrum is actually going to make Reddit change it's policies and stances. In reality, all it did was allow a bunch of secondary subreddits to temporarily filter to the top of everyone's feeds.
Keep in mind that the majority of the participating "masses" are all actually controlled by a very small group of mods. They "shut everything down" to give the illusion of having more people care about their quixotic endeavor than actually do; Astroturfing at it's finest.
The only way anything would actually change is if people left Reddit en-masse; this is not going to happen of course as it would mean those same "powerful mods" losing their tiny thrones.
Comment by Skuuder at 01/09/2021 at 18:43 UTC
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It worked