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How does Lemmy work with search engines? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by melonpunk to c/[email protected]

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One thing Reddit dominates on is search results. I'm looking things up and seeing so many links to reddit, which I guess is going to help keep that place relevant (unless those subreddits stay dark).

I wondered how Lemmy and this fed thingy stuff all works for that? With more posts can we expect to see people arriving through search results?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I had quite the negative Google experience just now with Lemmy. I googled "ntfy Mastodon" and to my surprise the ntfy Lemmy instance (discuss.ntfy.sh) fully indexes communities that I imported for my personal user, i.e. non-local communities.

IMHO that should really not happen. In this case, i really don't want ntfy be associated with some random posts from random communities that i just happen to subscribe to personally.

It should IMHO only index local communities, or make it possible to configure this.