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

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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.