From the article:

A volunteer-made project that fights bots on Reddit is shutting down. BotDefense, a tool that helps fight bots in more than 3,600 subreddits and has nearly 150,000 accounts on its bans list, will be going away.

As for why: The community of users and moderators submitting accounts to us depend on Pushshift, the API, and third-party apps. And we would be deluding ourselves if we believed any assurances from Reddit given the track record of broken promises. Investing further resources into Reddit as a platform presents significant risks, and it’s safer to allocate one’s time, energy, and passions elsewhere.

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    It would be lovely if these groups could be convinced to move to the fediverse. There’s a large set of problems like this that we don’t have the tooling to handle yet, and it’d be a shame if all the knowledge on how to deal with stuff like bots and brigading died with reddit.