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thih9 on June 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative

> As history has shown, you can only do so much to stop this.

History has shown you can stop this well enough. Try accessing e.g. instagram; bibliogram attempted this, the project is now discontinued.

sam0x17 on June 7, 2023 [–]

This is true in the case of content that doesn't care about SEO. Reddit cares very very much about SEO, so it can never truly block bots.

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