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?

  • t0fr@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Pretty cool to start seeing Lemmy posts in search results

      • Einar@lemm.eeEnglish
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        10 months ago

        So many Reddit posts are removed and useless. And often these posts used to be the main answer. I don’t bother much with Redditt anymore. It’s not the knowledgebase it used to be. Will likely never be again.

        Some questions I “reask” here on Lemmy and get decent replies. Thus building a new knowledgebase.

        • PerogiBoi@lemmy.caEnglish
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          10 months ago

          That’s exactly what all of us should do. Thank you for being proactive. We need more of you.

    • neutron@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Hope the indexed instances don’t get taken down years down the road, or have some sort of independent archive to consult later.

      • AdmiralShat@programming.devEnglish
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        10 months ago

        That’s my biggest worry, however I’ve been programming for like 15 years now and there are forums I posted to that no longer exist, so I think its just a symptom of information as a whole.

        Reddit was the bastion for this kind if stuff for a long time, and now there are a bunch of posts by this guy named [deleted] that have no post body so make of that what you will

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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.

        • CoderKat@lemm.eeEnglish
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          10 months ago

          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.

      • blindbunny@lemmy.mlEnglish
        0·
        10 months ago

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

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          0·
          10 months ago

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

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I honestly think Programming.dev is very well positioned to become a “programming reddit” of sorts. Nice polished sounding domain name, and a discussion platform visually similar to Discourse but with the grunt of the fediverse behind it.

      The only thing holding it back is probably a setting for showing local communities by default, when logged out browsing. Whenever that feature arrives in Lemmy then 👌

  • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’ve noticed Lemmy appearing more in search results already. It’s nice