I too am a happy customer. The ability to tweak individual site ranking especially makes searching the internet so useful again.

What we really need is some sort of torrent-like system for this content with something equivalent to magnet links.

Currently yes, but I’d imagine they’re also going to disallow crawlers via robots.txt or what’s to stop OpenAI and friends from acquiring the corpus that way? Though of course that assumes this whole thing is really thought through which might be a big assumption on my part…

We also don’t know if search engines will pay the new fees to index reddit, so that could potentially make it disappear faster.