They forcibly replaced mods doing the blackout with ones that would end it. They ended the rebellion swiftly.

The new protest they are doing is changing the rules of subs.

For example pics only allows picturws of John Oliver, memes only allows memes about landed gentry.

They also have free moderation which most companies spend millions on.

They were actually really solid devices with a great user experience. They just came along too late.

J# was also literally MS Java

Those are two different communities. The same as they would be on Reddit. Literally different names.

Communities are hosted on one a synced with others. So technology will be the same on all servers as long as they haven’t defederated each other.