Astroturfing on popular subs

Are we to believe that users in dozens (hundreds?) of popular subs woke up today and thought it was a great idea to ban links to/from X? Is this not astroturfing?

I heard recently that many of the X employees sacked by Elon Musk (formerly in content-related roles) took jobs in content moderation at Reddit. These people are also mods of big subs, potentially pushing narratives.

In short, the Reddit-wide proposed ban of X inbound links is anything but organic user behaviour.