Does publishing on HackMD.io provide link juice from backlinks?

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I'm considering using HackMD.io to publish some articles and was wondering if anyone knows whether the platform passes link juice from backlinks. Has anyone tested if links from HackMD contribute to SEO, and do they help boost domain authority? Any insights or experiences would be appreciated!
 
I've tested with links in the
Code:
https://hackmd.io/@username/article_slug
format pages, but anything published on these is stored as escaped html in the page's code (eg. <a href="https://yourlink.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> ) which is then rendered client side via javascript. Looking at Google's cache of the pages seems to show that Googlebot does not parse this code, and the links don't show up in tools like Ahrefs.

You can use the pages as parasites however (most popular in Asian geos), but any link juice is probably going to be null and void.
 
It's more about content sharing and collaboration than SEO benefits. Most links there are nofollow, so you're not going to get direct link juice from it. That said, I’ve used it to create content hubs that link to my main assets.
 
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