this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2023
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Funnily enough my own instance has a such a bad SEO that when I searched up my username (to find out what is out there) I found all other instances my comments got copied to but not my own freaking instance.
Oh well. Yes Google does index instances but how well and often is another story.
Some instances disabled crawling, namely lemmy.ca
But why? Part of why reddit became so useful was its ability to use it for searching. Even though I no longer visit reddit regularly anymore, I still use
site:reddit.com
on many of my google searches because it gets better results for opinion or explanation based topics. Similarly, I found tons of useful local info from my local city's subreddit. I can't say the same about the Lemmy community, which I only see if I explicitly remember to go to it because the sorting doesn't show small instances.I... don't know. Performance? Doesn't matter anyway, because it's all federated.
You can do site: lemmy.world and find lemmy.ca posts since they're federated.
appreciateUsefulInfoCallback(true, setVeryLoud);
Don't forget to nest your callback a few levels deep, that way it's easier to use.
Maybe google downranks db0 instance like it does other pirate sites?
Sounds like a possibility.
I honestly don't think Google crawlers knows how to index the fediverse but I am kind of talking out of my ass rn.
Fediverse is just another website. It literally finds my username on many other instances posts got replicated to.