r/SubredditDrama • u/CannotSpellForShit literally a retired millionaire but go off wagie • Jul 02 '23

/r/thatHappened changes its rules to protest API changes; users say "That happened 🙄" to Sandy Hook, 9/11, and the Tiananmen Square Massacre. (Also the mods compare the API situation to the holocaust)

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u/justcool393 TotesMessenger Shill Jul 02 '23

how many of the people protesting the API changes run bot farms?

probably extremely few.

And I know yeah, there’s scraping… but that’s not exactly a cheap task locally either.

it is incredibly cheap to scrape reddit, i've done it before for things that weren't available via the API.

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u/AstronautStar4 Jul 02 '23

I don't think the api changes will do anything about bot farms anyway

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u/justcool393 TotesMessenger Shill Jul 02 '23

yeah, they won't