You’re kinda right? It’ll be harder for links to be considered authoritative by google since they’ll be across a bunch of smaller websites with fewer references to them (unlike reddit, which is 1 website with billions of links to it).
But maybe it’ll work somewhat anyway since every page has “Join Lemmy” text in the bottom & google might be able to link them together.
On the other hand I have no idea and I’m just going off my vague understanding of how the google algorith m works.
No. These use Widevine DRM.
As you can tell from the security section of the article, it is not exactly impossible to crack, and I’m certain private groups have their own way to get past it.
But if you’re just looking for audio, then you can just record your computer’s output audio stream.