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Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay
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this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2024
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That's what I figured, but I am envisioning a future where lemmy is huge and the network of admins is quite sizable.
I guess that doesn't change much?
Lemmy is way less privacy oriented than reddit and that's by design.
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