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Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay (www.theverge.com)

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 4 points 4 months ago

It's structural - you can be open or locked down, and it's hard to decentralize if you're not open

You can make it easier or harder to work with that data, but ultimately it's obsfucation - you could make it hard to parse and obscure details, but ultimately if you want decentralized federation you can't hide too much