1 yr. ago

It appears that all the lawyers have been sacked by Spez too - PullPush threatened legal action from Reddit over API access

forum.pullpush.io It appears that all the lawyers have been sacked by Spez too - PullPush API Forum

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What? What is pullpush? What does that have to do with lawyers? I'm confused
- Pullpush is an alternative and free API for reddit, this threat/ban is based on the assumption that pullpush is using the official reddit API, and I guess that its using it exclusively through a single reddit account which they just banned.
  
  It has to do with lawyers because they are trying to make a vague legal threat i guess, Youtube made a similar demand of invidious and sent a C&D to them for violating ToS of the Youtube API which they do not use.. So I dont think the lack of lawyers is the issue so much as lack of competent engineers who could explain to the lawyers that one does not need to use API to get content from a public website which requires no login to see contents.
- Pullpush is the spiritual successor of Pushshift. Supposedly, Reddit is threatening legal action over Pullpush’s use of Reddit’s API. In reality, I’ll be shocked if this goes anywhere
  
  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?
Never go full Elon Musk.
- I mean this honestly is true. When Elon was only being 80% Elon I used to think he was a smart, cool, rich dude. Now I see him as an free stupid absolutist.
  
  He wasnt being 80% Elon. You were just unaware of how shitty he was back then because everyone was kissing the ground he walked on.
  
  He's always been a massive PoS, he was just better at keeping on the downlow.
  
  I still consider Falcon 9 to be a good thing that he made possible by funding its development and manufacturing. It's given small companies and scientific organizations affordable access to space, and created actual competition in the small satellite launch business. It certainly inspired other companies, like Rocket Lab and Astra, to develop low-cost orbital launch and sounding rockets.
  
  But then, all of his other anti-society things combined with him having turned into a borderline fascist moron... the scale just doesn't level out.
So... I read the post and I'm missing a lot of context here. Is PullPush a separate third-party API that someone released to interface with Reddit's servers?

If so, could they be sued for data scraping like this?
- If they agreed to a user agreement and violated it while causing damages sure. Proving they did may be tough.
This is funny. In the email he wrote that the only way to contact the pullpush team is to do so using the forum and, at the same time, he added a really weird ToS agreement where if you are affiliated to Reddit in any way you set that the only possible arbitration of all the disputes need to pass through, I assume, him as a judge.

I'm both impressed and weirded out. Kudos for the creativity.
- I kinda like that PullPush needs to find and pay Ivan before arbitration commences. I kinda think Ivan is a random name intended to be unfindable so arbitration never starts.
  
  I kinda think Ivan is a random name
  
  Hahahaha, that would be even better!
What the hell

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