Search engines currently struggle with the concept of federated posts. My guess is that instead of finding a post’s home instance, they accept the first mirror of that post and discard copies from all other instances through deduplication.
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PonyOfWar@pawb.social 10 months ago
Odd that it’s an obscure Basque instance though.
HKayn@dormi.zone 10 months ago
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 10 months ago
The search engine bots are absolutely powerhouse-obnoxious in how many requests they make, and there a ton of them, and Lemmy's not real optimized to cope with the load -- most big instances block all bot traffic simply as a matter of server survival as a result of that. So I would expect not to see any of them in search results any time in the near future.