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So Google will just prioritize site:reddit.com content now? Doesn't sound quite "open" or "authentic" as Google mentions on their blog post.

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> With this partnership, and via our Data API, we’re ushering in new ways for Reddit content to be displayed across Google products by providing programmatic access to new, constantly evolving, and dynamic public posts, comments, etc., on Reddit. This enhanced collaboration provides Google with an efficient and structured way to access the vast corpus of existing content on Reddit and enables Google to use the Reddit Data API to improve its products and services – including supporting new ways to display Reddit content and providing more efficient ways to train models.

That's what I thought too. Guess SEO train will follow. site:reddit.com was useful while it lasted.

So basically what you have to do is create a social service , make sure everything is open with an easy to use dev API to get the enthusiasts and third party clients going.

And then once you’re big enough you close all the doors and then try to get big players to pay you for access?

Yes, this is called enshittification. It has absolutely been the game plan for the past 15 years or so.

You're ready to lead.

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