Are search engines able to index Lemmy?
I still keep seeing all search engines link to Reddit, but nothing from Lemmy is linked in organic search results.
I’m expecting big push towards Lemmy to happen when Google returns Lemmy links.
What about Lemmy instances which don’t have an URL starting with “lemmy”? How will a typical Google user filter results if he’s interested in all Lemmy instances? DuckDuckGo to the rescue? 👽
In theory one of the big instances like lemmy.world or lemmy.ml should be indexed and searchable using the site: tag, and their local caches of communities originating on other instances should be included. It might mean that Google returns multiple duplicate pages (one for each instance indexed) however, unless Google takes steps to reduce duplication. Time will tell I guess.