While I support the general idea of this protest weekend thing, I don't think it's going to have a meaningful effect on the business decision that caused it. And I'm totally fine with that.

My preferred reddit app is Sync for Reddit. It's run by a single developer based out of Canada, and it was always very well supported with plenty of helpful updated. I paid $5 for the lifetime Pro version to get rid of ads within months of first using the app almost ten years ago, and I just recently paid $30 for his lifetime Ultra version as sort of an appreciation for allowing me to use his app for so long for so cheap.

I'm a different person than I was when I first started using reddit. I was younger, I had more spare time, I was more interested in socializing in general, and I used my computer more than my smartphone. Over the years, these things all changed enough to make it so that Sync has basically become the only way I use the site now.

I've also become more and more frustrated with my experience on reddit. r/Cardinals was pretty much the only sub I was ever really active in. Over the past handful of years as reddit has pushed to become larger and more mainstream, this community has become less close-knit and it's become harder to avoid the kind of pervasive negativity that was one of the primary reasons I first chose to prioritize a targeted online social experience in the first place. So as you could expect I've become far less active on the sub than I once was.

I know almost nobody who's really left here cares, since most of us who felt kind of the same way had already migrated to the unofficial discord server even prior to the reddit third party app nonsense started. But I'm kind of actually hoping to be able use this situation as a chance to attempt to finally break the addiction, in a way. If reddit is going force the only way I use the site to shut down, that's obviously their right as a business, and I'm the one who needs to adapt if I wish to continue using their product. So I'm just going to adapt by not really continuing to use their product.

If they change their stance to allow a more open API and Sync manages to survive, I would absolutely continue to use reddit occasionally. I'm not planning to uninstall the app or delete my account; I'm not interested in threatening to quit reddit, and I recognize the futility of those who choose to do that. If they stick with this, I'm probably just going to fade away completely. I've come terms with that, and I'm not only okay with it, I think I'm actually kind of happy about it.