So… some heavy news today. How can I lighten the mood… Music recommendations!

It’s almost 1 AM here and I’m desperately trying to get this out so please excuse any formatting mistakes or half-formed thoughts.

Where I’m At

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I was going to give you a bit longer of a rundown of my life’s story here, but I’ll give enough here to explain why it’s just the cliff notes. The first thing I want to make clear is that I never asked nor expected to become the head mod of three subreddits with a combined total of 1.8 million subscribers; it just sort of happened one day as the moderators above me drifted away.

I also originally had a more detailed breakdown of my medical story here but it boils down to this: I've been nauseous every day for the last 2.5 years culminating in not-quite-brain surgery three weeks ago. This leads up to Reddit making their third-party API changes clear the day before my birthday while I'm still suffering from splitting headaches from the aforementioned surgery. Fun!

Where Reddit’s At

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I was planning on writing something here myself but you should really just go and read by , the developer of Apollo.

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The Future of My Subreddits

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I haven’t decided what I’m going to do yet and I’m too drained to be sure of myself right now anyways, but Reddit killing off ’s Sync would take a lot of my enthusiasm with it. There’s rumbling of other moderators leaving the site or setting subs to private or protected. There’s a lot to consider and it’s almost 1 AM here.

How to Fill the Void

Don't want to use Reddit without a third-party client? Did you favorite subreddit shut down? Well, we're here to help!

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• I’ll be publishing code on GitHub as . I have a Discord library, a selfhosted wallpaper server, a rewrite of Minecraft Plus!, and more

• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a fantastic game that I’ve already sunk a ton of time into while I’ve been recovering from surgery

• I’ve been slowing down on Destiny 2 and Hearthstone but boy can they suck up time if you let them

• Brandon Sanderson’s secret project books have been fantastic so far. I need to finish the Alcatraz Smedry series then figure out where to start with his Cosmere books

• I’m probably due to revisit and fill in what I missed from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books. My favorite book of his is Night Watch

• I completely forgot I’d bought the second book of Brandon Mull’s Beyonders trilogy after helped me find it again

• I’m looking forward to season 2 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds later this month

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I’ll include other moderator's recommendations here as they respond to me.

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I meant to make this earlier in the week and then this morning (with a “Dawn of the Final Day'' joke) but that didn’t end up happening as I’ve been busy and my surgery headaches backslid a bit (They’ve been better though!) Context for what’s going on is in my previous post for those who missed it or are new to this discussion on :

So, Reddit’s actually going through with it. Third-party apps are getting spotty and sometime today or tomorrow I’m sure they’ll be completely cut off. If you’re not disappointed by this, you’re missing the point. Reddit claims that only 3% of users use third-party apps but what that statistic glosses over is that only about 10% of users comment on posts made by an even smaller 1% of the user base. Moderators are an even tinier fraction. In the coming months, expect to see a general decline in the quality of the site as long-time posters are driven away and the scabs that the admins use to replace the protesting “landed gentry” (a.k.a. What Spez calls mods who know what they’re doing) moderate poorly or are simply spread too thin.

Anyway, on the heart of the matter: the admins have made it clear that things will be changing, whether we like it or not. Here’s your chance to influence how:

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