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dan, 2 years ago to asklemmy in How can we improve Lemmy’s SEO so we can google “(question) lemmy” instead of relying on “(question) reddit”

Like, if a web crawler sees a Beehaw post, and then seees Lemmy.ml’s mirrored page of that same post, could it just show up as two different results? Could it work against the SEO in that it gets marked as “duplicate” or “spam” content in some way?

The ideal solution is that the page has a canonical tag, telling search engines what the main URL for the content is: ahrefs.com/blog/canonical-tags/. I don’t know if Lemmy already does this, nor do I know how well canonical tags work cross-domain as I’ve only ever used them for content on the same domain.

dan, 2 years ago to asklemmy in How can we improve Lemmy’s SEO so we can google “(question) lemmy” instead of relying on “(question) reddit”

Good content will still be surfaced on its own

Not if you don’t do basic SEO at least… Things like ensuring that pages have:

• Good title tags, with the most important parts (post topic) at the start of the title
• Meta tags - description, keywords, canonical URL, etc
• Open Graph tags - for when links are shared on social media sites
• been optimized to load quickly - Google prioritises faster sites above slower ones

Plus the site should have a robots.txt and sitemap XML that’s been submitted to Google Webmaster Tools.

dan, 2 years ago to asklemmy in What's a big tech product that you actually find useful?

HERE maps is pretty good… It’s one of the only major competitors to Google Maps. I’ve used their APIs in the past.

dan, 2 years ago to asklemmy in What's a big tech product that you actually find useful?

Google Maps is best-in-class IMO. Some other services come close but aren’t quite as good.

dan, 2 years ago to asklemmy in What is the most unhelpful advice you have received?

It’s what Elon is missing from the code of Tesla’s self driving mode

<pre style="background-color:#ffffff;">
<span style="color:#323232;">if (goingToMalfunction) {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  dont();
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span>

dan, 2 years ago to asklemmy in What is the most unhelpful advice you have received?

My wife (in her 30s) got shingles and doctors / people at the pharmacy said the same thing. “only people over 50 get that!”

She was in a lot of pain. 0/10 would not recommend getting shingles.

dan, 2 years ago to asklemmy in Be honest, do you still use reddit?

I’m mostly just using it for subreddits that don’t have an equivalent Lemmy community yet.

dan, 2 years ago to asklemmy in What password manager do you recommend?

Given the prices of these VPSes, you could get two or three with different providers and have a warm standby in case of any issues.

RackNerd is legit though - a real company with a physical office. I’ve had some VPSes with them in the past, and only got rid of them because I wanted to consolidate a few things.

dan, 2 years ago to asklemmy in People who work in food service or customer service: What’s the dumbest thing a customer ever insisted was “the law” or “illegal”?

A lot of people only have debit cards in Australia, and consumer protection is a lot stronger than the USA. Most credit cards in Australia have an annual fee, and the only rewards are usually frequent flyer points, so they’re nowhere near as common as in the USA.

I’m Aussie but I’ve been living in the USA for 10 years. American credit cards are something else. So many good cards with no annual fee, great perks (like extended warranty), and great rewards (like cash back, or points that are worth way more than in Australia).

dan, 2 years ago to asklemmy in What password manager do you recommend?

Get a Yubikey that supports Webauthn and FIDO2. It’s the future of two-factor authentication on the web. At work we use the YubiKey 5C Nano, but I think the entire Yubikey 5 series supports Webauthn.

dan, 2 years ago to asklemmy in What password manager do you recommend?

any $5 VPS provider will do.

A cheap <$20/year VPS is sufficient to host Vaultwarden. No need to spend several times that. My Vaultwarden installation is only using 120MB RAM, so a 1GB RAM VPS would be more than sufficient. Take a look at RackNerd, HostHatch, GreenCloudVPS, and the other top providers on LowEndTalk. RackNerd’s latest sale has a VPS plan with 1GB RAM and 14GB SSD storage for $11.38/year: lowendtalk.com/…/boom-boom-4th-of-july-deals-come…, but I’d personally go with the 4GB RAM and 75GB disk for $47.88/year, since self-hosting is addictive and you’ll find plenty of other stuff you want to host.

(I’m not affiliated with any of these companies)

dan, 2 years ago to asklemmy in What password manager do you recommend?

I have a cronjob that just does docker pull/stop/rm/run without checking the error codes

Ah, you like living on the edge 😛

I don’t trust automated Docker updates… There can be breaking changes between versions. I don’t want my Docker containers to automatically break themselves :D

dan, 2 years ago to asklemmy in What password manager do you recommend?

because of a layer of protection

What does this mean? It’s very vague :D

dan, 2 years ago to asklemmy in People who work in food service or customer service: What’s the dumbest thing a customer ever insisted was “the law” or “illegal”?

Debit cards can be run as credit

Does it cost the merchant more?

In Australia, debit cards are dual-network, and credit transactions cost far more than debit transactions. Debit uses a local system called EFTPOS that has low fees, whereas credit uses the card issuer’s network (Mastercard, Visa, etc) and they take a far larger percentage.

dan, 2 years ago to asklemmy in What's the point of buying new phones every years?

I don’t understand it either. The only reason I upgraded from my Galaxy S10 was because the USB port no longer worked. I could still charge it via wireless charging, but it was annoying not being able to plug it into my car to use Google Maps. If the USB port didn’t break, I’d probably still be using the old S10.