Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit
arstechnica.com
Mod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts.

Title says it all. If you think Reddit’s been trending down lately, just wait.

  • MsPenguinette@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    So if I read it correctly, it was purely because they disagree with Reddit, not because they lost access/usage of any tools. More of “fuck doing all this work for these assholes” thing

    • subzero12479@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      https://www.reddit.com/r/BotDefense/comments/14riw76/botdefense_is_wrapping_up_operations/

      Like many anti-abuse projects on Reddit, we’ve done all of this for free while putting up with Reddit’s penchant for springing detrimental changes on developers and moderators (e.g., adding API limits without advance notice and blocking Pushshift) and figuring out workarounds for numerous scalability issues that Reddit never seems to fix. Without Pushshift, the number of malicious bots we were able to ban dropped to 5,517 in May.

      The “blocking Pushift” part is what actively makes their work harder by a lot.