In my opinion, pushing lemmy to be a Reddit replacement isn’t the right move. Instead, Lemmy should be pushed as something that previously bulletin board forums dominated: the hobbyist, niche, discussion forum.

We don’t need hundreds of millions of users. Hell, most people stopped posting on places on Reddit that had too many users. What you want are communities with thousands of passionate users.

My point is that Google indexing would also be great, but more important is the ability to search these communicators for archivable posts. Reddit’s search functionality was dogshit so we had to rely on Google.

Oh, good point. Yes, probably? We can not simply assume search engines know that all of these point to the same content:

• https://slrpnk.net/c/technology
• https://feddit.de/c/technology@slrpnk.net
• https://sopuli.xyz/c/technology@slrpnk.net
• https://beehaw.org/c/technology@slrpnk.net

Or even worse, due to defederation, they may not all point to the exact same content.

Without further investment either from lemmy or the search engine’s side, they are probably seen as distinct sources, not aggregated. Which makes each individually less relevant and less likely to show up .

Also note none of the adresses above contain ‘lemmy’. How would users search for content on lemmy in these cases? Can’t do “technology site:lemmy”, or?

But I can say, lemmy content is visible. Haven’t seen it on the first page of ecosia yet, but on page 2 or 3.

I believe there are engines that specifically index (search) the Fediverse. Searx is one that can do this but it might depend on the instance.

I tried searching for the title of this post verbatim and it isn’t in google results period.

Haven’t checked if they do this, but you can tell Google which one is supposed to be the “real” post. So you shouldn’t get duplicate content.