One of the best things about reddit was looking for answers or other users with the same problem as you, and since Google didn’t really help with that anymore and instead insisted on giving you business results, the best practice was to put your search terms in followed by ‘reddit’ and you’d find your answer.

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    I’m working on a specialized search engine just for the fediverse. https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search

    If anyone wants to help out, feel free to reach out, but I hope to have something ready to release soon.

    The idea with my version is that it’ll search as much of Lemmy / the fediverse as it can and you can select the preferred instance that you want to open any link with.

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    I’ve been experimenting with my instance and google does index my lemmy.mitchday.com page. If you search ‘lemmy mitch day’, you get my page right up top and a few motorhead fans named mitch down below.

    My experiment involves trying to SEO a vanity domain I’ve had for years and only used for email. Since July 4, the page ranking for my general site has steadily climbed. The little bit of traffic from other instances and a handful of subscriptions seems to be impacting the ranking.

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    They’re getting indexed, but search rankings are so low they’re buried. If you put <search term> site:<server> you get post results. For example lemmy site:lemmy.world

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      Why are people using a site named after the place they purposefully left with just one letter changed?

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        Presumably because reddit itself has a lot of positivity and memories attached to it for a lot of people - it wasn’t the site that people wanted to leave, but rather the ceo and staff behind it.