LOL (thelemmy.club)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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[–] 0 points 7 months ago (12 children)

Do Lemmy threads end up on search engines?

My god I hope not.

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Why wouldn't they? You don't even have to be logged in to view them.

    You should never assume anything you post publicly online is at all private or hidden from any search engine/AI.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Could you imagine someone legitimately looking some shit up and having trash from lemmy.ml be the result?

    The world isn’t really for that level of misinformation.

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    As if the general level of misinformation online isn't already several orders of magnitude worse than anything on lemmy.ml.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    @OwOarchist @Rhoeri Unlike AI crawlers, search engines generally respect robots.txt and noindex tags, which will tell them not to index or surface those pages in search results. This is how fediverse profiles which have chosen to opt out of internet search indexes do so.

    You should still assume things you post in public with no auth required are public of course.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    If you search Fluxer (that Discord alternative people are raving about) on DDG, a programming.dev link is on the first page.

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