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Is Lemmy search-engine unfriendly? (vlemmy.net)

submitted 1 year ago by carbotect@vlemmy.net to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Any post and community could be accessed through a theoretically limitless amount of instances, which also means a theoretically limitless amount of URLs.

Will this hinder Lemmy from ever coming into the mainstream? If I type any topic in Google, I will get a reddit thread that deals with that. Can something like that ever happen for Lemmy?

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[–] fubo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Currently it appears that a non-logged-in user (try an incognito window!) will only see posts on a particular server's local communities. So a search engine bot crawling multiple Lemmy servers will only see duplicates if they've been explicitly crossposted.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, you can definitely browse "all" while logged out. It just defaults to local.

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yes I'm sure that it won't take too long for search engines to cotton on and start indexing Fediverse stuff - after all it's going to be getting linked from other sites, which will cause the spider to head to the source URL and start having a gander.