Every instance stores what are essentially copies of everything it’s users are subscribed to. So when you post “to” feddit.ro, you’re posting to the copy on lemmy.zip. Similarly, Lemmy.world has their own copy (that for whatever reason is ranking higher in search) because someone there is presumeably subscribed to the community.
Comment on Lemmy posts are starting to pop up on search results for Google (+ other search engines)
sarmale@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I have a question, I have posted with my lemmy.zip acccount to a community hosted on feddit.ro, and when I search the title only lemmy.world appears, even tho i didnt post it there, any idea why?
Corgana@startrek.website 1 year ago
otter@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Adding a bit more to the other comments
The post should exist on all 3 instances (as well as any other instance federated with feddit.ro). However lemmy.world is bigger and so more people are likely linking to /from that instance, which mean Google is indexing it with higher priority.
The other instances should probably show up over time?
Teppic@kbin.social 1 year ago
Hello from kbin... (federated here too)
But this poses an interesting dilemma for Google, potentially to top 100 results could end up just being the same post observed on many Lemmy and kbin instances.otter@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I think Google tries to prevent that, which is interesting because I don’t know how that will work
lemmyingly@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You can post with an archive?
neutron@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
It means many people are using lemmy.world instance to view your post instead of lemmy.zip or feddit.ro.