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  • RecallMadness@lemmy.nz
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    9 months ago

    I think Something will have to change quite significantly.

    Search engines give heavy weighting to uniqueness of content. And with Lemmy content being replicated across the fediverse that doesn’t exactly happen.

    And I’m not sure you can set a canonical URL that’s off site. And then, if it does and that site goes down, you “lose” the content.

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      9 months ago

      It’s not just that it’s not unique, but any single instance is less heavily viewed, even if the overall response is