I think this is a case of people doing both at the same time.
You see things like this a lot, on the internet and in politics, the framing of a situation as a binary choice, the idea that we only have the option to do one thing or the other. It's bullshit. We can do as many things as we're damn well capable of doing. Sometimes even at the same goddamm time.
I have no doubt that there are reddit mods currently migrating to whatever alternative they're going with while also simultaneously trolling the shit out of reddit on their way out.
Good for them, the more attention they raise, the more fun people have, the more it'll be noticed when they get the boot.
So uhh, step one: get cholera (it lives on shellfish, and plankton do with this what you will, lick some shells or something)
Step two: ingest cholera
Step three: try not to die