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Lemmy content findability (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by beerd@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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I did a couple of searches with duckduckgo and google, finding that unlike reddit it doesnt really suggest posts on lemmy, just whole communities. Im curious if this is unavoidable with this number of users or if there is a way to make search engines suggest better lemmy results and make the resources accumulating here useful for a broader audience.

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[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 2 points 1 year ago

it is super easy to google e.g. “bifl socks reddit” but with federated services

I also guess that's the issue. Many lemmy instances do not have 'lemmy' in their URL. So if someone searches for "bifl socks lemmy", they might not see results from these lemmy instances with non-lemmy names.