Comment on How come Lemmy rarely shows up in internet search results?
sndmn@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
Because that doesn’t make any money for Google/MS/Meta/Amazon etc.
Comment on How come Lemmy rarely shows up in internet search results?
sndmn@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
Because that doesn’t make any money for Google/MS/Meta/Amazon etc.
simple@piefed.social 11 hours ago
...No. It's because Lemmy content and users are duplicated into hundreds of instances. Websites are ranked independently and because they're so split, none of them are popular enough to be on search engines. There are plenty of ad-free sites that show up on page one.
some speculate that because the content is the same across all these instances, Lemmy might be getting caught in the spam filter too.
Kirk@startrek.website 11 hours ago
I also noticed that when Lemmy links do appear it’s often to a random federated instance, not the original source.
breadguy@kbin.earth 10 hours ago
no its all a big conspiracy