yes it can happen
this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2026
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LOL. Nice.
I've never seen it.
I also think it would kill Lemmy--getting to be the first results on Google is too valuable a prize. We'd be overrun by bots and astroturfed to hell.
Top result in good is an ai summary
That's true. Search is slowly but steadily being replaced by AI, which makes SEO much less of a threat.
Edit: But on the other hand, it makes data set manipulation much more valuable. Instead of just trying to pump up the stats of ONE post, you have bot armies making hundreds of posts and comments to try to influence the training data. That's actually worse.
Kagi has a filter specifically for fediverse
Depends on the instance, some can say βhey donβt index usβ whereas others can say βhey index us so we growβ, each instance admin has that decision however search engines can ignore the request to not index and do it anyways.
Oh man, banning indexing has the same vibe as Piefed banning all the most active users. Apparently, you can run part of the internet, and still not know how internet communities work.
IIRC, only once. It felt like seeing someone you know on TV.
Well, everyone starts somewhere, I guess.
I've hardly see any really useful technical discussion on Lemmy rivaling the discussion on other sites. Mostly what I've seen here is people asking how to fix their grub on Linux mint or some such things.
Not really any specific swarming around other issues and/or attempts to resolve them so far. All discussion is mainly political or gets into those dumb reddit circle jerk comment sections where people just make funny/ironic comments. The type of behavior they leaned on reddit to farm karma but is mostly useless here.
Idk as the internet gets more and more massive it's hard to steer where the discussions happen if there aren't many relevant discussions already happening.
So the only think you'll probably find in a search engine related to Lemmy will be shitposting memes
you might want to try programming.dev if you want some good tech discussion, I recently learned about the impact of UUID as primary column in a database and it was really high quality
yes! i sometimes do when searching stuff about linux.
do you append 'lemmy' to your search query while searching?
I tried to do that but whenever I did I found other interesting stuff instead of finding what I wanted to find xD
nope, rawdogging it.
Sometimes, yeah
Ones, when I was checking if it's even indexing.
No