A volunteer-made project that fights bots on Reddit is shutting down. - The Verge
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BotDefense, a tool that helps fight bots in more than 3,600 subreddits and has nearly 150,000 accounts on its bans list, will be going away. As for why:

From the article:

A volunteer-made project that fights bots on Reddit is shutting down. BotDefense, a tool that helps fight bots in more than 3,600 subreddits and has nearly 150,000 accounts on its bans list, will be going away.

As for why: The community of users and moderators submitting accounts to us depend on Pushshift, the API, and third-party apps. And we would be deluding ourselves if we believed any assurances from Reddit given the track record of broken promises. Investing further resources into Reddit as a platform presents significant risks, and it’s safer to allocate one’s time, energy, and passions elsewhere.

  • animist@lemmy.oneEnglish
    891·
    2 年前

    Dang spez, hope the money you’ll be getting from each api call is enough to pay for all the free work the community has been doing over the years

    • Chaotic Entropy@feddit.ukEnglish
      18·
      2 年前

      It’s the money from Reddit’s IPO launch that he is after, the API changes are about sending a message to investors that their needs will come first.