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- ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish1 year
No, Reddit frequently has answers but lemmy has too little content for now
Definitely, but I’m a firm believer in being the change you want to see. I’ll be contributing to this site rather than reddit from now on
- 1 year
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.
- 1 year
It would not be on top of Google regardless, because it isn’t paying for the ad slot there.
- 1 year
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.
- ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish1 year
Same! But I won’t only search lemmy unless I want zero info
- 1 year
I’ve been looking forward to this actually.
As far as I’m concerned, automatically avoiding Reddit just by avoiding Google (which I already do) is a welcome bonus.
I guess I’ll use my phone even less now. Sometimes inconvenient but beneficial in the long run
I thought I was tripping earlier but I just tested it and you’re right. even using Boolean search I can only pull up user profiles, not posts.
- 1 year
Lemmy is good for general discussion. Current events, politics, rant about life, whatever.
Not gonna be useful for discussing thing like:
“Which is your favorite character of [Insert obscure TV show that 90% of people didn’t watch]”
meanwhile, theres almost guaranteed to be a subreddit for that show.
- 1 year
This is bizarre.
I’m using the DDG search engine in the DDG browser and I’m getting reddit results with your search. The only difference was I didn’t choose Canada as my region. I tried Canada(en), I tried all safe search options, and I tried Canada (fr) and each time I got Reddit as my first search results.
I tried “All regions” but didnt get anything as well. I’ll be trying the DDG browser, thank you for your input
Edit: tried it, didnt work. Reddit is no more for me I feel like
- 1 year
The changes must not be rolled out uniformly. I still get Reddit results that are less than a month old. If it weren’t being reported as a deliberate decision, I would’ve assumed this was just A/B testing.
- 1 year
Isn’t there an option in reddit settings to turn off and on showing up in Google results?
I think that feature is refering to other people searching up your username
Edit: btw I dont use google (whether the browser or the search engine) which is why I was annoyed at this change. Only the google search engine can give you reddit results
I find absolutely no value in that place now. It’s morphed into nothing but a time sink and there are plenty other options for that.
The site doesnt feel like its filled with real people anymore, maybe there are more and more bots being used?
