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?
Pretty cool to start seeing Lemmy posts in search results
Gotta keep this up! So much of my google results are Reddit forum posts
At least now I’m starting to see those results as "Fuck /u/Spezz This post removed by "
So many Reddit posts are removed and useless. And often these posts used to be the main answer. I don’t bother much with Redditt anymore. It’s not the knowledgebase it used to be. Will likely never be again.
Some questions I “reask” here on Lemmy and get decent replies. Thus building a new knowledgebase.
That’s exactly what all of us should do. Thank you for being proactive. We need more of you.
This could be a big help to growing the overall threadiverse community since growth after the reddit bump has stalled. Not saying growth is intrinsically the goal, but rather that organic rather than force growth (which is how we got most of the users here) is preferable
Hope the indexed instances don’t get taken down years down the road, or have some sort of independent archive to consult later.
That’s my biggest worry, however I’ve been programming for like 15 years now and there are forums I posted to that no longer exist, so I think its just a symptom of information as a whole.
Reddit was the bastion for this kind if stuff for a long time, and now there are a bunch of posts by this guy named [deleted] that have no post body so make of that what you will