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?
Pretty cool to start seeing Lemmy posts in search results
Gotta keep this up! So much of my google results are Reddit forum posts
At least now I’m starting to see those results as "Fuck /u/Spezz This post removed by "
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.
That’s exactly what all of us should do. Thank you for being proactive. We need more of you.
Hope the indexed instances don’t get taken down years down the road, or have some sort of independent archive to consult later.
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
Take that, Stack Overflow! Programming.dev on deck!!! Let’s gooooooo
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 👌
Hey, does that mean we’re finally googleable? That’s pretty cool.
My guess is it’ll vary instance by instance. You have to get on Google’s radar to start search your content.
Time to start injecting my posts with SEO nonsense
Reddit programming funny Google lemmy search results…
Don’t mind me.
You know it’s a unique question when lemmy is on the front page.
Google: I don’t know, ask these nerds.
So you know those buttons at the top of Google search results?
Images, News, Videos, etc?
You’ll never guess what new button they’re testing out now.
Huh did Google start indexing lemmy?
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.
Maybe google downranks db0 instance like it does other pirate sites?
Some instances disabled crawling, namely lemmy.ca
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.comon 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.
I honestly don’t think Google crawlers knows how to index the fediverse but I am kind of talking out of my ass rn.
Fediverse is just another website. It literally finds my username on many other instances posts got replicated to.
Lemmception
I’ve noticed Lemmy appearing more in search results already. It’s nice
