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Given the... frankly absurd rate at which people are signing up to servers, and subscribing to other servers, and posting and commenting and upvoting and...
I mean it's getting a bit hairy, and user growth was already following a very steep growth curve.
When I joined reddit more than a decade ago we also had frequent periods of instability, I think this was around the time digg users fled to reddit.
I am confident it'll all be sorted out along the way.
You can avoid it completely right now by simply joining one of the less crowded instances instead.
Good luck infrastructure teams!