"We can't do anything about Google's indexing about the Fediverse, so we're giving them a pass."

No, you can do something about Google: build better Fediverse search.

@atomicpoet last time I checked there were quite a few people who were opposed to fediverse search.

Regarding Google, they worked on realtime Twitter search for a while but axed that. I forgot why.

@atomicpoet ah apprently because Twitter shut down the firehose to Google. Well, what can you say. https://searchengineland.com/google-realtime-search-the-aftermath-of-the-google-twitter-split-84794
Google Realtime Search & The Aftermath Of The Google-Twitter Split

Last Friday, Twitter quietly shutdown its "firehose" of tweet data that was being piped to Google. Like a gas station no longer getting deliveries, Google

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