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I think as the community grows, more search engines will start including us!

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[–] HKayn@dormi.zone 3 points 8 months ago

Search engines currently struggle with the concept of federated posts. My guess is that instead of finding a post's home instance, they accept the first mirror of that post and discard copies from all other instances through deduplication.