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

Otter@lemmy.ca to Fediverse@lemmy.world – 1322 points –
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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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This anti user attitude is so lame. It's some real hipster nonsense.

It's really not, when it's been proven time and time again that more people doing something ruin that something it should become obvious that lots and lots of people is a detriment

The reddit front page is a classic example of that, the general state of the internet proves it too, beaches/music festivles are both great examples too

That's not even thinking about the cost of everything and corporate meddling either

It is so fascinating to me there are people out there who really mistake their own subjective experiences as iron objective truths. Just a complete lack of self awareness. It's like how babies lack object permanence.

Its been proven? Really. Do tell.

Yes like all the people using rice for food has totslly ruined rice

Dont even get me started on indoor plumbing. Was so much better before it got popular.