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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.
There's nothing here!