Looks like Lemmy has great indexabiliy: www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aeurope.pub
europe.pub is only about two weeks old and hundreds of pages have already been indexed. Currently setting up the Google Search Console to get more details.
Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Discord, Reddit and Lemmy are bad choices for forums. If you want ANY useful information to stick, put it on forums you know are gonna get indexed and archived reliably. Reddit is indexable but there’s no guarantee the page will still be there when you search for it through Google.
Discord is completely unindexable so any information that exists on a server that gets deleted is lost forever.
Lemmy is a half-way house. As far as I know it’s kinda indexable but not really.
tfm@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Lemmy is as indexable as Reddit.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Not only that, the ongoing discussion format means all knowledge is in the same place and people don’t need to keep asking the same question over and over by creating new posts and you don’t end up with the same conversation happening in three different branches of the same post like on Reddit/Lemmy.
Supervisor194@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Discord is bad because its forums are not world-readable, therefore not indexable. It’s very useful to the rest of the world to have conversations be public. I bet the youngest users here don’t even remember but searching Google in the 2000s before Facebook went huge and when forums were all world-readable, it was a different world. You could find somebody who was talking about your niche issue/product - no matter what it was. It was kind of magical. No matter what thing happened to you, you could be pretty sure it had happened to someone else and they were talking about it.
Not anymore. Everything’s on Facebook now and Google can’t see it, nor can anyone else - except Facebook. All that legacy knowledge just tucked away in Facebook’s data vault and essentially useless to anybody but Facebook, which makes it less than useless.