But that is not completely incorrect, because sometimes the excess of users can an big part of the cause why the request failed, and you are an user, so...
Still not the user's fault. The user is trying to use the site; they didn't do anything wrong. The ones who broke reddit, in the sense of having failed to do their job in a way that resulted in breakage, is the backend reddit staff who didn't make a robust product or failed to scale properly.