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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] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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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