GammaScorpiiCan Lemmy posts be indexed by Google or other search engines?
Would this be corrected naturally by people using feddit as a search term more or does google have to manually patch this things?
I guess, but it's highly unlikely that "vlemmy.net" or "feddit.de" will be more searched than Reddit.com in the next time
EnglishMobsterIt will be corrected over time, I presume automatically. I was one of the first people with a Steam Deck and when I searched for things Google would "helpfully" autocorrect to StreamDeck. But eventually Google figured it out.
I don’t know about others but I used to just add “reddit” to each of my searches. Wouldn’t adding “Lemmy” instead do the same thing eventually?
The problem is I don’t know if it would pull instances that don’t contain Lemmy in the name.
shadowbertOr other federated content on other platforms.
tqgibtngoAs a newcomer, I've visited 3 Lemmy sites: Beehaw. Lemmy.world, and a custom instance. I noticed that they each have page footers that contain: Join Lemmy. If the same is true of many Lemmy instances, I can add Lemmy (or, with quotation marks, "Join Lemmy") in a Google query. — (Note: Top matches might not always be best matches on the originating instance, or sometimes the best matches might be hidden until I click "repeat the search with the omitted results included." And of course sometimes I won't get any match because the target hasn't been indexed by Google.)
I guess you would need the name of the instance where the community resides. But usually if you search about specific questions the site with the information will appear (be it reddit or some lemmy instances) without adding it to the search term
Why are people using a site named after the place they purposefully left with just one letter changed?
Feddit is the name of a Lemmy/kbin style federated instance.
MokaPresumably because reddit itself has a lot of positivity and memories attached to it for a lot of people - it wasn't the site that people wanted to leave, but rather the ceo and staff behind it.
Because the f stands for federated and it's the biggest German node?
First we need to offer google competitive answers to reddits. Then it will consider indexing us.
Not the way Google works. It's probably indexing most medium size instances and up. They just need to get better Pagerank along with the other metrics google uses now to show up more prominently
For example https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=reddit%20site%3Akbin.social
We could just pay Google. How else do you think scam site keep appearing at the top of Google searches?
hawkwindBeing decentralized will make it harder to just use “search + reddit” because you don’t know if it’s “search + lemmy.world” or “search + behhaw” or “search + kbin.” Also, each admin is in charge of their own Robots.txt.
I recently saw that someone was making a keyword search engine that works across the fediverse. I’ll try to find the project.
That’s cool, but OP is specifically asking about finding things on Google.
czech"...or other search engines?"
Google gutted their search over last few years.
No, sandar I don't want 69 pages of SEO optimized trash
marsara9I’m working on a specialized search engine just for the fediverse. github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search
If anyone wants to help out, feel free to reach out, but I hope to have something ready to release soon.
The idea with my version is that it’ll search as much of Lemmy / the fediverse as it can and you can select the preferred instance that you want to open any link with.
BaroqueInMindDoes it only index Lemmy instances? What about kbin and others?
Does fediverse instances even show up in search engines?
There is no money for parasites here so I wouldn't expect them to send anyone here.
They can. For Mastodon there's an option for "Opt-out of search engine indexing" which adds a "noindex" tag to your profile which Google respects. Not all indexers respect the tag however and "noindex" data isn't federated which can cause your replies to show up: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22047
Replies to posts can be indexed by search engines even if I've opted out of search engine indexing · Issue #22047 · mastodon/mastodon
Steps to reproduce the problem Check the "opt-out of search engine indexing" option (Preferences/Other) Make a public or unlisted reply to a public post by somebody who doesn't have that option che...