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As a general rule you should assume everything you put on the internet is accessible. Unless itβs encrypted by a key you provide, and I mean a full rsa key, itβs going to be accessible.
The notion of privacy on the internet is not a thing. Everything you write is going to be collected and aggregated, especially in the world of AI.
What you can do is use an alt account with no info, and if itβs really sensitive use a VPN to hide where it came from. For private messaging do not use anything but an encrypted chat service.
Anything on the web that is accessible by you is accessible by web scrapers. So to answer your question, yes.
Unless Lemmy goes down the route of Twitter (I refuse to call it by its new name, itβs dumb) of blocking access unless you login. Thatβs just how things are.
Can they just block them for robots.txt ?
Google ignores robots.txt so that wonβt do much Iβm afraid. You need to add special tags in the header of every page to block Google from indexing that page: source
Google doesnβt ignore robots.txt
WTF If Google gonna do whatever they want why we even put this in /var/html/www πππ
Every federated instance? unlikely but possible.
If activity pub becomes mainstream, then the indexers will get a direct feed instead of scraping it from instances
You couldnβt have put that into the title? Jeez.
Answer
Yes, but unfortunately since Lemmy is decentralized you canβt do the site:example.org thing.
You can get fairly close:
https://www.google.com/search?q=lemmy+inurl%3A"%2Fc%2F"+
lemmy inurl:β/c/β QUERY
kinda hacky, but it only returns lemmy results for me⦠heh, lots of duplicates.
edit:Made the example query less specific
Maybeβ¦
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lemmy+"recently%2C+the+government+was+hacked"+7777AKA
https://www.google.com/search?q=lemmy+"recently%2C+the+government+was+hacked"+7777AKA
Ahhh thats soo dump