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I really do appreciate that. This service is used by so many people and it does make mod's lives a bit easier. Hopefully today we can figure out what terms we are violating, etc. I will make sure they have my contact information including my cell phone.
My fear right now is that their new TOS will make what we do impossible regardless if they successfully reach out to me. I spoke personally with Chris Slowe a few years ago at an MIT conference and he personally congratulated me on Pushshift. I hope he still feels we are providing a lot of value to Reddit to help Reddit in a number of ways. However, when a company goes the IPO route, things change dramatically for devs using API tools made by the company.
We all saw in real-time what Elon Musk did to Twitter's API and my biggest fear is that Reddit will take a similar route that ends up hurting research substantially.
Comment by IsilZha at 02/05/2023 at 13:42 UTC
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My fear right now is that their new TOS will make what we do impossible regardless if they successfully reach out to me.
Many of us feel the same. It seems they want two things:
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2. Feels like they are specifically trying to kill any kind of archive like pushshift, with apparent limits like not redistributing the data, and requiring it all be anonymized.
Comment by HotTakes4HotCakes at 02/05/2023 at 12:18 UTC
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I like that you're hopeful, but the evidence suggests they're not going to work with you. This is about selling reddit data themselves. There's money to be made in shutting you down.