Lemmy being decentralized doesn’t make it very search engine friendly.
Because it’s federated across multiple instances, none of them reach a critical mass big enough / trusted to be constantly at the top of results.
Duplicated content across instances can be flagged as spammy content.
I recently had a very specific issue with KDE and the first and actually helpful result was a thread from a Lemmy instance. Never had this happen before, but it’s a good sign.
Lemmy being decentralized doesn’t make it very search engine friendly. Because it’s federated across multiple instances, none of them reach a critical mass big enough / trusted to be constantly at the top of results. Duplicated content across instances can be flagged as spammy content.
It would not be on top of Google regardless, because it isn’t paying for the ad slot there.
I recently had a very specific issue with KDE and the first and actually helpful result was a thread from a Lemmy instance. Never had this happen before, but it’s a good sign.