I'm not a big reddit user, but I'm there occasionally. As a casual user I had never even heard of Apollo or Sync. Based simply on my experience with corporations, I would guess Reddit is at best overacting, at worse being true dicks. He seems to be implying third party apps are making money off Reddit. I have no idea if that is accurate. However, if it is, that would at least give him a sliver of an edge of reasonability to cling to...
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