- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- reddit@lemmy.ml
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Are lemmy instances indexed properly as well? Would it be enough to put “lemmy” into the search
The federated nature of instances unfortunately might nerf the SEO because they’re from different domains. Google wouldn’t value instance_1. com more because the clicks to related_instance_2. com are higher.
I thought links between domains helped pagerank score? Mind you, it’s been a while since I learned SEO. A lot of the content, especially the federated stuff, seems to be loaded via javascript. I wonder if that affects what can be indexed.
If it’s done right, it’s still indexable because in the first render the content is delivered with HTML. On subsequent clicks, the browser fetches via JavaScript, but the URL in the browser still changes and if you refresh, the page is fetched containing the content again.
That’s important not only for search engines, but also for screen readers, fast rendering and devises without JavaScript. I think Google is totally able to index JavaScript generated content, but pages will get a higher rank if it’s done in an accessible way.
That’s why I used shreddit to delete all my posts and comments on Reddit. It’s not much, but if everyone does it Reddit will feel the repercussions. They won’t benefit from my content anymore.
I don’t want to take away ressources from people who will look into Monero in the future :/
In the past I commented many explanations when people asked for help and I don’t want someone to find a thread with a question and deleted comment with a “Thanks!” reply. I guess a script to change all my past comments into something along the lines of “Removed. In case this was a support-related comment, feel free to ask for help on monero.town” could work?
Some people used a script that edited all their comments to forward to a new instance (in this case it could forward to Lemmy). Perhaps that would be a solution?
Didn’t notice since I use Kagi…
I did notice that Kagi now informs us about how much tracking and shit the sites are using. It’s an info badge for each url.
Never heard about Kagi before, thanks for mentioning it! How is your experience with it? I tried DuckDuckGo for a while and wasn’t to happy about it. Is it comparable?
Had this happen today. Was searching for some programming related stuff and top pages are all inaccessible Reddit posts.
Same with Pathfinder 2 questions.
Definitely saw this coming… can’t imagine what will happen if Stack Overflow pulls something similar. All WebDev/DevOps work will halt overnight.
I’ve been trying to put my issues/solutions in a personal blog or wiki, but there’s so much old info out there in sites like Reddit/SO/medium/etc, it’d be a huge loss when it goes away.
We’re going to have to actually read official documentation instead of relying on some greybeard’s wisdom on SO 🥲
It is - but you can still access via archive.org and similar resources.
Doesn’t help for searches though
You can copy the address of the search result into the way back machine or Google cache
You’re absolutely right, true, but that will work for you and me, but not for your typical user, even the more advanced ones will be stumped at that point
Google should just redirect to the archived page if the link to Reddit is dead.
