So, as per images below, when you search for an Australian community associated with lemmy, lemmy.world is more likely to come up than Aussie Zone in all i’ve tried, bar Melbourne our most active community.

My question: Is this a problem we should consider intentional action to correct? And if so what could we do?

  • zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Should just be able to do it with one rule of Disallow: /c/*@*, I think?

    I forgot that federated posts are just under /post/* like local ones are. You’d have to block each federated post individually. Not sure if you can do that on each individual page? Certainly adding every federated post to the top-level robots.txt isn’t feasible.

    • Nothing4You@programming.devEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Posts have a canonical reference to the originating instance, e.g. this post contains <link data-inferno-helmet="true" rel="canonical" href="https://aussie.zone/post/11962005"> for me. This is a hint for search engines to ignore this post and instead index the original one instead. The same also already works for communities, this community containing <link data-inferno-helmet="true" rel="canonical" href="https://aussie.zone/c/meta">. Not sure if DDG is just ignoring this or there’s another reason for it to show up multiple times.

    • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Yeah they might have to change how Lemmy handles posts like that which might break stuff. Search engines would also have to work out that Lemmy is not a single site but a collection and since the site name does not mention Lemmy it might be more difficult