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The official web app for lemmy.
https://join-lemmy.org/
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Add nofollow to outgoing links. #542

Open dessalines opened 2 years ago

dessalines commented 2 years ago

https://lemmy.ml/post/139092/comment/104521

Thann commented 2 years ago

This would make lemmy instances a "black hole" to search engines. I think it makes sense to "still-follow" links to other federated lemmy instances. :thinking:

It might also make sense to add a white/blacklist for nofollow links, but that would be a separate feature.

Nutomic commented 2 years ago

That sounds like a problem for search engines (and for sites doing SEO), but not for Lemmy. I think it will definitely be worth it if it reduces the spam.

It would be possible to implement an admin interface to review each new domain that gets linked, and approve them to not get nofollow attribute. But it would be a lot more work to implement, so i would like to avoid that at least for now.

Thann commented 2 years ago

Lemmy exists in communities, and for those communities to grow, SEO could be helpful.

Nutomic commented 2 years ago

Still need to add nofollow to links in markdown text (eg post body, comments, community description).