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How did the crowd's pitchfork turn from against reddit to against pushshift so fast?
Give it some time until both of those parties work things out behind the scenes.
We are certainly very demanding for a service which we aren't paying a single dime for.
Comment by [deleted] at 31/05/2023 at 05:18 UTC
15 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by Mason11987 at 31/05/2023 at 12:14 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
1. I don't see my comment as pitchforks.
2. I'm not sure why they're posting if they haven't worked out the main details.
3. We're moderating as volunteers. That's our payment. We blame reddit of course for breaking things. They ought to be blamed. If Pushshift doesn't want to do what they do for whatever reason they do it they're free not to. Presumably they have incentives.
Comment by Even-Citron-1479 at 07/06/2023 at 11:17 UTC*
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Reddit was the darling child bastion of the free Internet too, and now look where we are. Corporatization and greed (read: the "enshittification") gets to every company in time.
PushShift did an any% speedrun of this process in the course of a month. It went from passion project of open archival of Reddit, to being a PR puppet. This is nothing more than a thinly-veiled method for Reddit to keep harvesting and selling all user-deleted data "for safety", while maintaining their outward stance of caring when a user wants their data deleted.
Quite frankly, you may as well consider it an entirely different project. It has nothing to do with the old PushShift anymore.
Comment by reercalium2 at 31/05/2023 at 09:05 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
No working out is possible
Comment by happy_csgo at 31/05/2023 at 15:49 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Because pushshift went from a passion project made by a single person to benefit the community at no charge to some shady "research company" that looks like a state sponsored intelligence agency in disguise
Comment by TheMissingVoteBallot at 15/06/2023 at 06:03 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I'm from the future, your pitchfork should be directed at BOTH.