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Search Engine Content Discovery?

Observation: Right now, if someone wants to find an answer to a question, they can type that question into Google and add "reddit" to the end. This usually provides the answer that someone is looking for. I have tried a few random searches with the addition of "lemmy" to the end, with no such results. As Google's search engine seemed to shift focus and SEO became disastrously popular, I think reddit also saw increase in popularity because of the simple fact that you could append "reddit".

Inquiry: Does/will lemmy (fediverse?) have the same potential for content discoverability?

3 comments

csm10495

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I think eventually we'll get there for this. It takes time but SEO will likely happen.

Time is important though, I think it'll be quite a bit of time (years) before it's as useful as appending reddit.

ribboo

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Give it time! It’s definitely possible, but will still require more usage, as well as time. And some SEO. But we’ll get there.

flurry

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I was about to ask the same question.

The thing is reddit is one website so you can easily ask google to filter on site:reddit.com whereas lemmy has plethora of instances (domains), so I wonder how this will happen technically… Unless someone creates a domain and index all lemmy instances, I don’t think this will be possible.

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