Wondering if it’s just me. What will it take for Lemmy to be higher in the search results / public consciousness?

  • _spiffy@lemmy.caEnglish
    25·
    3 years ago

    Also Motorhead lemmy deserves higher Google ratings than we do. He is a beast.

    • Chozo@kbin.social
      2·
      3 years ago

      So, I looked into this. This is the page it’s getting that from:

      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37145312

      It looks like a forum post where somebody showed their inaccurate ChatGPT results got boosted to the top of Google’s ranking somehow. I think this is more of an issue with YCombinator’s SEO abuse than anything. There’s a reply from just 1 day ago on that forum post that says:

      I just searched “country in africa that starts with k” and it used your comment as a snippet answer

      EDIT: I also sent feedback on that result. I suggest others do the same if you see it. Only way these things get fixed is if they’re reported to the people who can fix them.

  • the_medium_kahuna@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
    5·
    3 years ago

    Not particularly. I kind of like Lemmy, and the Fediverse in general, growing organically as people discover it, rather than it being the shiny new thing

    • Deftdrummer@lemmy.worldOP
      11·
      3 years ago

      Well, I hear ya - but a vast majority of what helped Reddit (or any community) pick up, is DIY and self generated content.

      If that content can’t be found easily - ex; via search engine, or the content is entirely missing, then it doesn’t really help either cause. That’s just my 2 cents, because let’s face it, the search on Lemmy is fragmented and I think the help of big data could be promising.

  • Frellwit@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 years ago

    Append

    (intext:“modlog” & “instances” & “docs” & “code” & “join lemmy”)

    to your search query to search all indexed Lemmy instances. Works with Google, Startpage, SearXNG.