Visibility of public posts (especially by search engine)
Flaburgan
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There is actually a interesting discussion on Diaspora* about visibility of public posts. (same topic from different pods)
https://www.joindiaspora.com/posts/2660269
https://diasp.org/posts/1967379
People was surprised that public means public to the whole Internet and not only "public in Diaspora". After a discussion, they understood that we can't guarantee that a post will not quit the network.
But being easily researchable is a problem, so I think we should add a setting to allow or not search engines to index profile. The profile would be visible if an internet user has the url, but would not be found into Google / Bing / etc.
As the https://joindiaspora.com/robots.txt already disallow /u/ and /people/, I do not understand why we still find profiles on Google...
goob · Mon 10 Jun 2013 3:56PM
@steffenvanbergerem I think it's really important, and something I really want to work on. There are already bits and pieces, including on the project site Sean's been setting up, but nothing which really explains everything about how Diaspora works and how to use it, in really simple, non-technical terms.