I still have my reddit account to look up local news. Over my time on reddit I joined several chat groups and over the past week I’ve noticed that people are being mass added to these groups. Even ones that have been dead for years suddenly have people posting and commenting on them. It’s very obvious that this is been done by bots to drive up reddits activity in the wake of the blackout.
I did notice the few weeks before the blackout that I was getting several invites to message/chat a day, I shut that down.
Yeah, there were loads of complaints in May and June that people with popular comments on r/all threads were getting pinged multiple times/day with requests.