Yeah, Reddit is Digging its own grave.

honestly I'm not convinced step 6 is inevitable. I think enough people are okay with whatever reddit does.

The key capitalistic trick is to time your step 2 just when you have a critical mass on your platform. Upper management has understood that our shitty paywall will remove x% of our users from our platform. But if (100-x)% of our users can pay $y annually, we can sustain our business model and make $z of profit each year. PR will take care of all the backlash but it's all calculated.

Discord is fine for chatting, voice, and iterating quickly on projects. I have no idea why people want to think it's a forum. That's ridiculous.

I fucking hate discord

It's Cancer, have an upvote.

libredirect helps with that on desktop

(browser extension that turns links to sites like reddit, youtube, etc into links to redlib, invidious)

I think you're onto something

that would never work

All the decent answers I find are from 5+ years ago. I check the user’s activity and they normally quit the place. Warms the heart.

Are they new posts or old ones? They are blocking new ones, not old ones.

Based on my testing if you filter results by the last week or last day you get nothing. Past month works.

For old posts. I can't find new posts on DDG. I find them on Google but not on DDG.

Your Lemmy posts are already being scraped for AI

The level of effort it would take to prevent would be infeasible to ask of even a non volunteer admin let alone a volunteer let alone literally all of them

You don't need to scrape. If you want to get all the content on Lemmy, just set up an instance and subscribe to all the top communities, and the instances will just send you all the content.

So there isn't really a way to monetise or block it. I guess you could only federate to a whitelist, but the biggest instances will federate by default with any new instances until they are given a reason to defederate.

Some Lemmy instances disallow indexing in robots.txt, however indexers can choose to ignore that and actually blocking them takes a lot more effort.

begin with site:reddit.com test is much more accurate to get reddit search on brave search tbh

We need that for DDG. Opt-in, of course, but with a banner that makes it clear why is that really needed

Someone should make this feature but for ALL public web content you browse. Just download an extension to share the content of pages you browse to everyone (with cross-checking for accuracy), and you can view a fair share of what others have shared based on how much you contributed to the platform yourself. Basically crowd-sourced, unblockable web scraping.