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.comEnglish
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      1 year 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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          1 year 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
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        1 year 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
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          1 year ago

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

    • neutron@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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      1 year 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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        1 year 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

    • epyon22@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      My guess is it’ll vary instance by instance. You have to get on Google’s radar to start search your content.