I mean, this is just an outright lie right? Multiple devs have talked about how the Reddit team has been in contact to warn in advance of feature changes, and they have most certainly been in the team's mind over the last few years from the time of Alien Blue to today.

In fairness, the Verge has so far been covering this really well - their segment with Christian on the Vergecast was some of the best reporting I've heard about the issue.

Would kbin's current non-federation because of cloudflare stuff be stopping the-federation.info from accessing more recent stats?