I just had a really cursed thought.
When you post a link on the #Fediverse , it is usually shared with hundreds of instances and shows up in their global timelines.
Doesn't this mean that the Fediverse could be easily abused as an #SEO farm? I.e. increasing the search rank of websites by making them "more linked"?
Is this perhaps already happening?
Fediverse Admins, have you seen activity like this?
It could and I would be surprised if it hasn't.
The nofollow attribute value marks links as something to be ignored by search engines, so they don't affect their ranking and making useless for SEO purposes. Many sites put it for that purpose, Wikipedia is a good example.
So the only way putting links here can help a spammer is if people clicks in them, the same as spam emails do.
