• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    I didn’t mean to ask how one can view the comments. I meant to ask how it’s possible at all in the first place.

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      3 months ago

      Oh right. Unless I’m mistaken, Pushshift was a data collection platform that provided an API for getting Reddit data, before the API change ruined it. When someone deletes a comment, it’s still there in the database. Pullpush is a fork.