Can Lemmy posts be indexed by Google or other search engines? - eviltoast

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  • marcar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This would obviously be good for promoting Lemmy which I’m 100% all for.

    But from a privacy point of view, I also feel mods should be able to stop indexing or choose which engines can index for their specific communities and also users at a user should be able to control it. I understand that engines could ignore this, but I doubt the big ones would…

    I think I read that individual instances already can choose whether to be indexed or not, I could be wrong there