I’m OK with slightly immoral actions against justified targets; my main concern is effectiveness. This will at most slow down Reddit’s servers, but it’ll be practically invisible to users.

Instead a better approach might be to generate text and pictures that discourage other users from going to Reddit. Goatse, copypasta, gibberish, flyers telling people what’s going on, so goes on. In this sense I think that the subs posting John Oliver pictures, plus r/latestagecapitalism with orcas, got the right idea. It’s also legally safer.

we have a perfectly usable and in many ways superior alternative, we’re on the alternative right now

One thing doesn’t exclude the other, right?