Hopefully this kind of content is ok here. Up until recently, when I would be searching for some kind of technical info, the top (and best) results would usually all be Reddit posts. I was very pleasantly surprised to do that this time and find a Lemmy post instead!

…It did happen to be a post from me, so unfortunately didn’t answer my question at all, but I still thought it was really neat and wanted to share. Has anyone else seen Lemmy stuff getting indexed and turning up in their search results?

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Funnily enough my own instance has a such a bad SEO that when I searched up my username (to find out what is out there) I found all other instances my comments got copied to but not my own freaking instance.

      Oh well. Yes Google does index instances but how well and often is another story.

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          But why? Part of why reddit became so useful was its ability to use it for searching. Even though I no longer visit reddit regularly anymore, I still use site:reddit.com on many of my google searches because it gets better results for opinion or explanation based topics. Similarly, I found tons of useful local info from my local city’s subreddit. I can’t say the same about the Lemmy community, which I only see if I explicitly remember to go to it because the sorting doesn’t show small instances.

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            I… don’t know. Performance? Doesn’t matter anyway, because it’s all federated.

            You can do site: lemmy.world and find lemmy.ca posts since they’re federated.

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            Don’t forget to nest your callback a few levels deep, that way it’s easier to use.

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        I honestly don’t think Google crawlers knows how to index the fediverse but I am kind of talking out of my ass rn.

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          Fediverse is just another website. It literally finds my username on many other instances posts got replicated to.

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      So I thought the biggest issue with Lemmy and Google’s pagerank is that federated content looks a lot like that blogspam that just aggregates content from elsewhere.

      Perhaps they’re adapting things