I think as the community grows, more search engines will start including us!
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2024
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Odd that it's an obscure Basque instance though. Wonder why it shows that instead of something like world or ml.
The search engine bots are absolutely powerhouse-obnoxious in how many requests they make, and there a ton of them, and Lemmy's not real optimized to cope with the load -- most big instances block all bot traffic simply as a matter of server survival as a result of that. So I would expect not to see any of them in search results any time in the near future.
Search engines currently struggle with the concept of federated posts. My guess is that instead of finding a post's home instance, they accept the first mirror of that post and discard copies from all other instances through deduplication.