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Are Lemmy posts indexed by Google? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I did a search 'site:lemmy.ml' and a lot of pages came up. 'site:lemmy.world' returns 296 results for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I think this could be a problem for the fediverse. I can't make a global search in Google because each Lemmy server has a different domain. If I find a post from lemmy.ml, I can't answer the post because I have an account in lemmy.world, and so on.

[–] psylancer 4 points 2 years ago

Hopefully in time google search would be smart enough to know all the instances of lemmy are all lemmy. Maybe site:lemmy.ml won’t work but just adding lemmy at the end of a search might

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I can answer posts from other instances. As long as they're federated you can

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm still getting used to this but, I think you can respond to that Lemmy.ml post using your Lemmy.world account if the two instances are federated. I've made comments to posts in communities hosted on instances other than my home instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

If I understand right, you can respond to a post if you arrive at it through your instance that you're logged in to. If you find a post through Google or another link, you can't just click "reply" - you have to find your way back to the post through your server.

I'm sure the devs are working on cleaning up that experience. Sounds complicated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, just your address is not shortened.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

They seem to be, but not sure how quickly the results are updated