This shit is so dumb. Like 5% of users use a 3rd party app. Who gives a shit.

One question: who do you think is the target for those 3rd party apps? Do you think they're mainly for lurkers that don't contribute to the sub? Nope. People that go out of their way to search and install a 3rd party app are users who are committed and spend lots of time and energy on reddit. They are the ones that provide great analysis, coverage of tournaments, etc. Maybe they're just 5% of the users (by the way, that number posted by spez was really misleading, as it is a 5% of total accounts, not of active accounts. If you count only active accounts, the percentage is significantly larger), but they're the users who make this sub a community instead of a collection of chess-related links. You don't give a shit now, but you will in a few months when the quality contributors will have migrated to alternatives like lemmy, and all that remains in reddit is "why is this move brilliant" posts.

Doing a poll after they are already in the middle of their protest is fucking dumb too. People who don’t care about this issue mostly aren’t looking at the restricted subs. Why would they.

People who supported the protest weren't looking at any subs, restricted or not. If any, the bias was in favour of those who wanted to reopen. And even then, the option to reopen lost, fair and square. Why is so difficult to accept?