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How Quora Died (slate.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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“Why Do So Many Music Venues Use Ticketmaster?” “What’s It Like to Train to Be a Sushi Chef?” “How Do Martial Artists Break Concrete Blocks?” If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would have been one of the most interesting and longest-lasting corners of the internet: Quora.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Here's hoping at some point search engines will return Lemmy links when people look for answers, but we're not there yet

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

search engines are thoroughly crap right now. Abandon all hope that they will become better.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You say that like it's true for all search engines. Which isn't the case and is incredibly dumb to think.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Lemme guess, you're a kagi cultist.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The problem with Lemmy is the federated content gets duplicated on multiple sites, word for word, which isn't good for SEO

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

That is a search engine problem, not a lemmy problem.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Kagi now has a lens for focusing results from the Fediverse, I've seen it pull Lemmy links before!

[–] crazyCat 3 points 9 months ago

Have we said anything useful yet? Just kidding, but I just look for casual commentary on here, all surface level and meme stuff when tired at the end of the day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think Something will have to change quite significantly.

Search engines give heavy weighting to uniqueness of content. And with Lemmy content being replicated across the fediverse that doesn’t exactly happen.

And I’m not sure you can set a canonical URL that’s off site. And then, if it does and that site goes down, you “lose” the content.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

It’s not just that it’s not unique, but any single instance is less heavily viewed, even if the overall response is