since stackoverflow is dead and reddit is also on the way to its grave, I was wondering if we can have enough knowledge base here so that Lemmy comes on the first page of a search query. I know it’s very hard to archive and I haven’t even seen a single result from lemmy unless I specifically add ‘lemmy’ keyword to it.
side tangent: Reddit results are also not shown unless we add ‘reddit’ keyword but sometimes even if you don’t add ‘reddit’ you can see it on the first result.
Depends on the instance, some can say “hey don’t index us” whereas others can say “hey index us so we grow”, each instance admin has that decision however search engines can ignore the request to not index and do it anyways.
Oh man, banning indexing has the same vibe as Piefed banning all the most active users. Apparently, you can run part of the internet, and still not know how internet communities work.