Any post and community could be accessed through a theoretically limitless amount of instances, which also means a theoretically limitless amount of URLs.
Will this hinder Lemmy from ever coming into the mainstream? If I type any topic in Google, I will get a reddit thread that deals with that. Can something like that ever happen for Lemmy?
I think if canonicals are applied correctly, it should not be an issue?
I think you’re right. Looking at the html source for this page I don’t see a canonical tag, though. Maybe they haven’t added it yet? Or I missed it.
It’s probably the search engine that is unfriendly to Lemmy and others.
I like you philosophical view of the matter
This is in fact my biggest worry of Lemmy’s future. People need to be able to search for stuff and I currently don’t see how.
