After watching the 2nd episode of 11th season of Futurama, I googled "Futurama S11E02 discussion" (without quotes) and Lemmy.world was the 2nd result. We can do it, guys. - Lemmy.ca
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To see the discussion, you can see

Alternatively, here is the screenshot from the post.

I also wanted to share this tip for how you can find Lemmy posts:

  • Search using site:home_instance. So if I wanted to find recommended phones, I could go site:lemmy.ca recommended phones. Because every instance has its own collection of posts, you will be getting all content on Lemmy (that is available from your home instance).

Question to everyone, what does Lemmy need to make it easier for people to find content? What are the implications of the Fediverse on how people might find content in the future?

One thing is that people are more likely to get posts from the larger instances, likely because more people are linking to them and opening those links? Another thought was the common complaint about how our post links aren’t community specific. While I can search for posts using the method above, I can’t search within a specific community like I can with Reddit (ex. I can’t search site:lemmy.ca/c/Vancouver recommended restaurants

  • sarmale@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    11 months 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?

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      11 months 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
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        11 months 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.caOPEnglish
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          11 months ago

          I think Google tries to prevent that, which is interesting because I don’t know how that will work

    • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      11 months ago

      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.

  • sarmale@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Did the same thing, now the linked thread is shown and not the discution

  • Habahnow@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 months ago

    That’s cool. I seem to have issues finding this post, or the top post of the day (https://sh.itjust.works/post/8365139) by searching: site:sh.itjust.works After watching the 2nd episode of 11th season of Futurama And I’m not getting the correct result. Am I doing it right, but there’s something else affecting the results (top of day for lemmy isn’t as popular as needed to show up on google, bing, nor DDG)? or am I making a mistake somewhere?

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I don’t think the instance is the issue like the other comment is suggesting (although I don’t quite understand the specifics of how it works). I’m playing around with it myself right now

      If I search site:sh.itjust.works Hello and set it to 24 hours, I do see posts. So timing should be ok too

      Update: So I think what’s happening is that the post needs to go through a few stages when it’s on a different instance

      1. Someone posts on a foreign instance (https://foreign.example.com/post/123444
      2. Someone on your instance views the post, which generates a link on your instance for that post (ex. https://example.com/post/135799)
      3. Google indexes your home instance and grabs that post

      So we’re probably between steps 2 and 3 right now?

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Looks like it’s appearing now! Just needed some time I guess

  • yukichigai@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Swag. The more we show up in search, the more people will be asking “what the heck is Lemmy?” Some of 'em will join.

    Well then. Here. We. Go.

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I have been regularly sharing shit with friends that I see in Lemmy, and they always said to me why my links always have weird domains and shit… so I proceed to explain and we get to nowhere.

      Anyway this is people that weren’t even into Reddit, so that people are the harder to get, IMHO.

  • lemmyingly@lemm.eeEnglish
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    11 months ago

    One big issue that Lemmy has because it’s a distributed service is the dilution of results.

    For example, there is only one Reddit domain (that people use to access the service) but there are hundreds/thousands of Lemmy domains and the dilution will continue to increase as Lemmy’s popularity increases. It’s either that or there will only be a couple of Lemmy instances that will dominate all of Lemmy.