Lemmy posts are starting to pop up on search results with Google (+ other search engines)

Fediverse@lemmy.world – 1323 points – 8 months ago

To see the original discussion, you can see this thread: https://lemmy.ca/post/8488573

To open the post on your instance you can go to !lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world and see the recent top posts, or use an app/frontend/ browser extension (ex. !instance_assistant@lemmy.ca)

Alternatively, here is the screenshot from the post.

I also wanted to share this tip for how you can filter for Lemmy posts when searching:

Search using site:home_instance. So if I wanted to find recommended phones, I could go site:lemmy.ca recommended phones. Since every instance has its own collection of posts, you will be getting results from all over Lemmy. The limitation is that you won't see content from instances that aren't federated with yours, but you probably didn't want to see that stuff anyway since you picked your instance for a reason. You can also put any instance into the search if you wanted different results.

Question to everyone, what does Lemmy need to make it easier for people to find content? What are the implications of the Fediverse on how people might find content in the future?

One thing is that people are more likely to get posts from the larger instances, likely because more people are linking to them and opening those links? Another thought was the common complaint about how our post links aren't community specific. While I can search for posts using the method above, I can't search within a specific community like I can with Reddit (ex. I can't search site:lemmy.ca/c/Vancouver recommended restaurants

EDIT: The issues for it are here, looks like the devs are good with it now and someone just needs to implement it:

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Swag. The more we show up in search, the more people will be asking "what the heck is Lemmy?" Some of 'em will join.

Well then. Here. We. Go.

I have been regularly sharing shit with friends that I see in Lemmy, and they always said to me why my links always have weird names and domains and shit... so I proceed to explain and we get to nowhere.

Anyway this is people that weren't even into Reddit, so that people are the harder to get, IMHO.

It really was silly of Lemmy to not have community specific links, it's even more confusing that way. Now it's just a bunch of

{weird-domain}/post/{number}

You never know what it is unless you have link previews

Yeah hopefully its possible to change that without breaking anything

without breaking anything

That wouldn't be the Lemmy experience, no hating here 😀

Thanks!

I’ve had success describing it as “imagine you owned the server your Facebook info was stored on but could still interact with all other Facebook servers”. It’s a little simplified, but it usually gets the point across.

Guys... I finally understood the Fediverse! I made a Threads account!!!! /s

Sounds like a "them" problem, you keep doing what you're doing. Maybe they'll eventually get it, maybe not. Unless you give up sharing content with them entirely, of course, but that's your choice.

Swag, brah.