That’s a good point. The same content exists on multiple instances.
I think Lemmy should set a canonical URL the HTML <head>. The canonical URL of each post should point to the instance where a post originates from.
Seems like that is not implemented in Lemmy. Also checked Mastodon, and doesn’t have a canonical tag either.
On browser, I see a little fediversee icon next to every post/comment that links to the canonical. I don’t think traditional html search engines know how to index it, though. Probably better if we have our own lemmy search engine like browse.feddit.de
They aren’t behind any login or anything stopping it. So yah, I expect they’re already are being indexed.
I’m worried the Fediverse is going to be an SEO nightmare though.
That’s a good point. The same content exists on multiple instances. I think Lemmy should set a canonical URL the HTML <head>. The canonical URL of each post should point to the instance where a post originates from.
Seems like that is not implemented in Lemmy. Also checked Mastodon, and doesn’t have a canonical tag either.
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/consolidate-duplicate-urls#rel-canonical-link-method
On browser, I see a little fediversee icon next to every post/comment that links to the canonical. I don’t think traditional html search engines know how to index it, though. Probably better if we have our own lemmy search engine like browse.feddit.de