Haven't seen that, but reddit overall has become a shockingly bad, lowest common denominator platform (lots of those "Am I the only one..." questions, oh god).
Probably an A/B test. I checked /r/de and I don't see any auto-translation.
I do sometimes feel like a singleton in my space, e.g. believing in geographic addressing models in large address spaces like ipv6, where the closest to agreement I can get is "yes, but we don't do that" which at least acknowledges a theoretical position we could.
Somebody, possibly Richard Dawkins points out in populations measured in hundreds of millions a one in a million chance comes up a couple of hundred times..