• mrbubblesort@kbin.social
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    That tells me everything and nothing unfortunately. What’s pushshift then? What does it do? What does it have to do with reddit? And why are reddit’s lawyers sacked?

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      PushShift was a sorta reddit archive that could be used to see deleted comments and threads - if anyone ever sent you to a ceddit, rareddit, unddit, reveddit, etc link to view a deleted post or comment thread, that information was gathered via PushShift.

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      Pushshift was an API service that connected with Reddit to pull information about posts, users and other data. For example you used to be able to use unddit to input a URL and get a full listing of a comment thread, showing all comments that have been purged.

      This was a super handy service that Reddit all of a sudden cut off with only 1-2 months of notice. Moderators used to use this service extensively to help them moderate and actual data scientist used to integrate with it to pull out a heap of data.

      The best part about pushshift was that you could take a permalink (e.g. a 5000+ point upvoted deleted comment) and see if it actually violated the rules of the subreddit OR if the admins were just being shitcunts.

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      I think the implication is that no competent legal council would sign off on the messages sent by Reddit admin, therefore Reddit’s legal department must have been sacked. As for the rest of it, I can’t say.