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I heard that reddit has a dedicated cdn each for Microsoft and Google scraping. That's why they work so well to search reddit posts. It will probably take some effort to feed data so we'll from the fediverse.
On that note, perhaps we should have some per-community as well as per-post scrape/noscrape toggle. Might be difficult to get buy-in from all parties.
Whether a community gets to opt out of being scraped depends on the scraper respecting robots.txt and/or the meta tag of the page.
Not all do, particularly the ones scraping for SEO purposes, so instances might to add IP bans for scrapers that refuse to respect restrictions in those places.