This seems like a good place so far tbh

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    1 year ago

    Right, I may be totally misunderstanding the problem.

    If it’s just that lemmy needs time and interaction from the community to build that knowledge, then great! No problem. But what I understood was that lemmy’s communities and conversations simply aren’t made accessible to wide-searching like that.

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      Looking at the /robots.txt file on a few different instances, there’s nothing preventing Google or any other web crawlers from indexing Lemmy. I was even able to find some posts by searching site:lemmy.ml.

      I think part of it is that all the separate instances make for bad SEO. And there just isn’t enough content here yet to compete with Reddit and other search rankings. Hopefully it’ll keep growing and eventually take over.