John MuellerNov 15, 2022

With the migration to #Mastodon 4, your public profile pages & posts are now #JavaScript pages.

In terms of #SEO (I know, not everyone cares about being found in Google), this will likely mean that it'll take a bit longer for your posts to be findable, since they're linked from your profile page, and that page has to be rendered in order to see the links. Slower servers might have more trouble: indexing might time out before it sees the content. (more)

Show threadBrodie ClarkNov 15, 2022
@johnmu thanks for sharing John, great thread. Would love to see Mastodon put more emphasis on SEO - I wonder where that sits on @Gargron’s priority list
Show threadJohn MuellerNov 15, 2022

@brodieclark @Gargron From various threads I've seen over my long time here (a week? lol), I think it's not considered a priority other than to make sure it doesn't attract spam (nofollows everywhere).

IMO that's a fine decision, and the cool part is that *you* can publish your posts on your own site with minimal effort, since the infrastructure is so open. RSS feed is enough.

Also, individual servers could do things differently if they want to.

Show threadBrodie Clark
@johnmu @Gargron that makes a lot of sense, appreciate the insight!
Nov 15, 2022 at 9:47amWeb