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.

  • ChickenWings@lemmy.worldEnglish
    148·
    1 year ago

    And we would be deluding ourselves if we believed any assurances from Reddit given the track record of broken promises.

    This is what bothers me the most about the mods and devs who are still bending over for spez. I’m glad the BotDefense devs have some dignity.

    • gapbetweenus@feddit.deEnglish
      32·
      1 year ago

      If you sunk unhealthy amount of time into a community, it’s hard to break up. At this point the mods are just in your run of the mill toxic relationship with reddit.