No they are just busy living their lives. They are not following reddit events. Maybe that seems weird to someone who constantly follows it, but the absolute majority have other things going on in their lives.
That's wild. Didn't most of the apps release notifications in advance, through the app interface? It's possible Reddit actually is having outages, as well as having cut off third party apps, though I am not going to check.
I imagine these were the same people complaining about their favorite subreddits being closed. Completely clueless over what was happening right in front of them.
These reports are manual btw. It's implied as much all over the thread, but no one explicitly said that reddit isn't actually down, this is just people who think it is.