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I think Lemmy does set the canonical URLs correctly, always linking to the origin instance as canonical so it should see it as multiple ways to get to the same content.
Ultimately Google should figure it out if done correctly. But the problem remains that the userbase is tiny compared to Reddit, and mostly focused on the same relatively niche topics in the first place so it's just not gonna rank very high unless you search for Linux stuff.
Yeah, and that's what the canonical tags address: "hey I'm just a copy, my original location is Y". It's properly attributing the source of the data and should make search engines not mark it as duplicate content as a result. There's also tags to mark links as nofollow for indexing that should help with not looking like link farms either.
That should also mean only local content will count as content so that brings its own set of problems where small instances will never rank along the bigger ones.