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.
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
More bots on Reddit? Isn’t this what spez was going for?
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.
This can only end hilariously.
One day in the future reddit will just be bots advertising to bots.
Future? On some more niche subs already half the posts were made by bots.
It really blows that so many great developers who did free work for Reddit are getting shafted so Reddit can attempt to make more money.
Reddit is entering a death spiral that it might recover from. But it’s not looking good. Fediverse is the new cool.
The post on r/BotDefense
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