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[–] artyom@piefed.social 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

The block seemed curious, given that Reddit began as a website, and websites generally want traffic. Few are in the practice of turning traffic away.

My man hasn't used the internet in a while...

The vast majority of social media platforms are in the practice of denying access in order to coerce you into logging in or downloading their app so that they can mine your data and harass you into coming back.

Some of that probably has to do with AI scraper bots as well.