• plug_world@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I find the biggest problem with Lemmy and these federated apps is that search engine indexing kinda sucks right now. They get pushed so far down the bottom of the results, you only really see them when you search site:lemmy.ml or whatever.

    I believe this was a good decision. Hopefully in the future search engine indexing will improve. Otherwise I can’t see Lemmy being as useful as Reddit.

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      1 year ago

      It makes sense for fediverse instances to have very low SEO (search engine ranking) as the content is split up across many different websites and domains.

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        It’s also very annoying to crosslink content on the fediverse. So there is far fewer links between discussions. The network graph is way less interconnected, and that hurts search indexing.