Fantastic! Thank you for looking into the source code and verifying it!

Not true.

The links just need to have a “no follow” attribute (which is something that Lemmy could add, if they haven’t already).

These links do not influence the search engine rankings of the destination URL because Google does not transfer PageRank or anchor text across them. In fact, Google doesn’t even crawl nofollowed links.

edit: added relevant blob of text.

I don’t have anything meaningful to add, other than my sincere gratitude to you for posting this.

I haven’t laughed so hard in a good while.