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Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.

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[–] 5BC2E7 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People will just have to start adding lemmy instead :)

[–] psycrow 8 points 1 year ago

Better yet, add "fediverse".

[–] Aimhere 5 points 1 year ago

Sadly, Google Search doesn't seem to index Lemmy instances the way it does Reddit.

Sure, you can add "site: lemmy.world" to your search strings, but that mostly returns links to community or user feeds that mention your search terms, not links to the actual posts. And it doesn't group the results together for convenience, the way it does for Reddit.

Hopefully, this will change as Lemmy becomes more popular. We could also outright ask Google to start treating Lemmy this way.