I think it was already the case that a number of social media sites were cycling from the "Offer free bait" phase to the "Harvest the walled garden" phase.
Twitter barely works on Tor. Reddit barely works if you're logged out. Reddit is pushing their app really hard and obviously going to drop old.reddit one day when their internal API finally breaks it off.
If you make revenue from advertisements, having a web page that can be interpreted by any machine besides your own code is wasting money on freeloaders. Be they 3rd-party clients, Tor lurkers, or scrapers for search engines and AI.
Whenever anyone I know sends me a reddit link in a group chat, I relink them to old.reddit. The day they drop old.reddit is the day I start dropping those friends. I did put the app on my phone for a minute, since the "new" reddit web experience is so miserable, but the app was even more intolerable.
Twitter barely works on Tor. Reddit barely works if you're logged out. Reddit is pushing their app really hard and obviously going to drop old.reddit one day when their internal API finally breaks it off.
If you make revenue from advertisements, having a web page that can be interpreted by any machine besides your own code is wasting money on freeloaders. Be they 3rd-party clients, Tor lurkers, or scrapers for search engines and AI.