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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[-] infamousbelgian@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

I think if canonicals are applied correctly, it should not be an issue?

[-] person@fenbushi.site 3 points 1 year ago

I think you're right. Looking at the html source for this page I don't see a canonical tag, though. Maybe they haven't added it yet? Or I missed it.

[-] marsara9@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Would the canonical tag make any sense for Lemmy? The problem is, if you search for something your preferred site / URL is your instance. So the canonical would be different for every user?

[-] infamousbelgian@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

The canonical makes sense for the search engine (eg Google). I would put the canonical on the source instance.

Leaves open the question what would happen if the source would disappear…

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