What is to stop saidit from writing a bot to copy every submission from say reddit /r/technology into saidit?

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[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well, intentionally or not I think it's ended up great. Sounds like you were there from the beginning. I thought you came in later.

Now I'm going to look up what API means. The first is American Petroleum Institute, so I don't think that's it. Now I have to look up Application Program Interface.

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That /r/conspiracy post where I volunteered to help magnora was the start of SaidIt. He had a bunch of ideas all cooked up, but there was no tech or anything written down or anything. So since the beginning.

SaidIt's API is how that bot can post here and how the RedReader android app can log you in here and let you make posts, etc. We basically have all of this setup and working: https://www.reddit.com/dev/api/