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Lemmy's version of Place is so much better than Reddit (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Reddit actively encouraged bots and automation during the original r/place:
https://www.redditinc.com/blog/how-we-built-rplace/

The API should be generally open and transparent so the reddit community can build on it (bots, extensions, data collection, external visualizations, etc) if they choose to do so.