Between killing third-party clients and now only allowing Google indexing, Reddit has withdrawn from the open web in a pretty significant way. Not sure what the impact of this will be. Feels almost Facebook-like, much more of a silo than before.

@manton Now if only Lemmy or some other alternative had more decent uptake.

@manton others might follow.. like Pinterest for example.

@manton Gotta monetize that content. Can’t let the AI crawlers have it for free! What would the shareholders think? (parsed differently, “f- the users.”)

@manton It has hit me surprisingly hard to know that going forward if I want to search for something like “lodging in Iceland reddit” I have to instead search “lodging in Iceland reddit !g” now.