You know shit is getting real when the Monero Reddit server says it can not serve your request because it is "too busy" at the moment.
This happens quite often and got nothing to do with monero though :p
For some reason I was under the impression that subreddits ran on their own servers not a giant Reddit server.
No, Reddit is run only on Reddit servers. The code is mostly open source, so people can start their own alternative forum (see voat), but on Reddit domain it's all company servers.