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Comment by IsilZha at 02/05/2023 at 15:41 UTC
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1. there is no expectation of privacy in public. (Most everyone on reddit is anonymous anyway)
2. pushshift is only the most prominent. Even if they totally kill the API for casual users, there will still be many people web scraping sections of reddit. It's still going to happen.
3. pushshift is heavily used by mods and users to track and identify bots, spammers, trolls, propaganda accounts, malicious users, etc. If pushshift is forced to remove that data, it becomes useless for any of those purposes. Reddit's quality is going to tank without anything to combat those things.
Reddit does not have any anything to replace #4. They've only discussed what they might do, and what they have said they are thinking of releasing is going to be woefully inadequate. Also, dont expect to have much success appealing anything to any mods who now have no way to review removed or deleted comments.