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Hopefully this kind of content is ok here. Up until recently, when I would be searching for some kind of technical info, the top (and best) results would usually all be Reddit posts. I was very pleasantly surprised to do that this time and find a Lemmy post instead!

...It did happen to be a post from me, so unfortunately didn't answer my question at all, but I still thought it was really neat and wanted to share. Has anyone else seen Lemmy stuff getting indexed and turning up in their search results?

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[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Some instances disabled crawling, namely lemmy.ca

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But why? Part of why reddit became so useful was its ability to use it for searching. Even though I no longer visit reddit regularly anymore, I still use site:reddit.com on many of my google searches because it gets better results for opinion or explanation based topics. Similarly, I found tons of useful local info from my local city's subreddit. I can't say the same about the Lemmy community, which I only see if I explicitly remember to go to it because the sorting doesn't show small instances.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I... don't know. Performance? Doesn't matter anyway, because it's all federated.

You can do site: lemmy.world and find lemmy.ca posts since they're federated.

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

appreciateUsefulInfoCallback(true, setVeryLoud);

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Don't forget to nest your callback a few levels deep, that way it's easier to use.