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Interesting. The comments are now lagging well below normal. Here's a screenshot from the blackout tracker. The red arrow shows how reddit is still spamming lots of new posts, but comments are much lower than usual. Normally, at the peak times, comments are at or even above the number of posts. Not today though.
Makes sense, posts can be (and are) automated via repost bots. Commente and genuine interaction is impossible to fake.
Genuine interaction is hard to fake but there is definitely no shortage of bot comments or astroturfing in the comments
But if the only thing left in the comments section are obvious bots, even real users not planning to join in the Reddit blackout will start fleeing.