One of the side effects of the reddit meltdown is that many search results were unavailable because of communities going private. It would be great if we could fill in the void with lemmy content instead.

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    1 year ago

    I heard that reddit has a dedicated cdn each for Microsoft and Google scraping. That’s why they work so well to search reddit posts. It will probably take some effort to feed data so we’ll from the fediverse.

    On that note, perhaps we should have some per-community as well as per-post scrape/noscrape toggle. Might be difficult to get buy-in from all parties.

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      1 year ago

      Whether a community gets to opt out of being scraped depends on the scraper respecting robots.txt and/or the meta tag of the page.

      Not all do, particularly the ones scraping for SEO purposes, so instances might to add IP bans for scrapers that refuse to respect restrictions in those places.