Reddit communities are still private in protest of new API rules. Twitter moved beyond a login wall and is rate-limiting users. Users are frustrated but still using these sites.
But — what will happen to the Google Index? Millions of search results are effectively dead links. Users that refined Reddit search results via Google are now out of luck (Reddit’s search is inferior). Tweets in the search engine results page (SERP) now lead to a login wall for many users.
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Google search is already terrible. If you don’t add “reddit” to the search terms you just get ads and promoted stuff. Now that I can’t/won’t add “reddit” to the search terms Google is about to become WAAAAY less useful.
