Reddit’s CEO said he expects this blowup will pass eventually.

This was precisely the wrong thing for him to say if he wanted that to happen

It doesn’t help that there are pictures, but they’re failing to load atm.

You can even see it looking at the usernames of people in different instances. For example, I see your username as @Silviecat44@vlemmy.net, which pretty much identically follows the format of an email address.