Hello, sh.itjust.works community. I am curious what you think about ClubsAll, and whether you think we should stay federated with them. A few other Lemmy instances have recently defederated so this seems like a timely topic for discussion.
In short, ClubsAll is an ActivityPub-compatible Reddit clone. The site currently has one-way federation with no attribution: ClubsAll pulls content from Lemmy and displays it as local ClubsAll content. For example, you can visit https://clubsall.com/c/196 and there is no indication that the content is from https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/196.
Here are relevant posts with more information and context:
- General discussion: Let’s talk about ClubsAll (the ClubsAll founder left comments in this post)
- Recent update to that general discussion: As a reminder, ClubsAll is still showing all of Lemmy’s content without federating back
In the first post the ClubsAll founder commented that they plan to eventually have two-way federation, and to make the project open source. Whether those things actually happens is anyone’s guess.
What do you think?
One issue with the lack of attribution with canonical tags is it could break SEO, if that matters to you.
I am creator of ClubsAll, can you ELI5 this to me. What is attribution with canonical tags and how does that break SEO for others?
I’m on my phone at the moment, but this explains it pretty well https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1418
Basically without it Google could either down rank both versions as duplicates, or find your version first and assume it’s the original.
Thank you. I will read it in detail and try to understand how to fix it. I am hoping this is easier fix than implementing federation out, so maybe I can have someone do this sooner.