This might be a real stupid question but why is discover updating to a lower version? Is there any place I can read up why this is the case?

P.S.: Yes, I could have absolutely google this but lemmy is about more than just shitposts and memes imo. Asking some rather noobish questions will make us appear on google btw.

  • Chewy
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    8 months ago

    The major difference between lemmy and reddit is that there’s many instances for search engines to crawl, compared to a single reddit.com. They likely treat each instance seperately, which leads to a lot of duplicate content and most of lemmy isn’t search engine optimized.

    Sadly I don’t see a better way to do it than for search engines to be optimized for this kind of federated platforms. It’s not obvious from the outside which is the preferred instance to show to a user.

    I’ve had some luck finding content on lemmy by forcing a specific instance using site:lemmy.instance.domain, but it depends on the search engine whether it’s respected.