I did a couple of searches with duckduckgo and google, finding that unlike reddit it doesnt really suggest posts on lemmy, just whole communities. Im curious if this is unavoidable with this number of users or if there is a way to make search engines suggest better lemmy results and make the resources accumulating here useful for a broader audience.

  • halendosEnglish
    19·
    2 years ago

    For results to appear in search engines they need to be indexed by their crawlers (bots that check webpages and analyse their content, following up any links they find in that page) so it takes time. As a Lemmy instance becomes more popular, more links will show up for it in other websites and by consequence more crawlers will index its pages.

    • nivenkos@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Isn’t another issue that it requires Javascript for the content to be visible?

      • halendosEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Not that i’m aware, I think sites without Javascript should be indexed even better since they are easier to parse by the crawlers.

        • nivenkos@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          Yeah that’s my point - Lemmy requires JavaScript whereas Reddit will still show the comments without it (at least on old Reddit IIRC).