Hello there everyone!
I am one of people who decided to migrate from Reddit, but I wasn’t a content creator or mod, just an average user who read some posts, liked one here and there, very rarely commented anything. But as someone with some IT knowledge that also read many posts regarding protest, I dropped the site like a hot potato once it started to show my support for mods.
The kbin experience for now is fine, obviously the site needs to get accustomed to recent user influx one step at a time. I wish the devs the best! Thank for your hard work <3
But the only issue I have is that not every community I have followed transfered here or not every sub found its magazine substitute. While some of them are already growing or I can deal without them, there’re few niche ones that still hold valuable information. I don’t want to help create an illusion that users don’t care at all, but there were times when I found solutions for work related problems there or resources and answers for questions I couldn’t find elsewhere. Not to mention the niche communities. Thus forcing me to go there lurking in these cases.
And here’s my question - how do you feel about it, mods and ex-redditers? In a few months that probably won’t be an issue, but I’m now troubled with that as I want to make moraly right decision.
Question: is this place crawled by search engines? If we make a thread here with useful information will other people be able to stumble on it on the internet at large by searching terms?
Because if not, it should be, and if it is, we should maybe work on our SEO. Reddit is a huge repository of information and gets new users frequently specifically because of that fact. If Google queries can’t lead people here then we’re never going to achieve wide adoption like that. It’s cool to have the info here for people who already know they can find it here but we need the library doors open to the public as well.
It’s the same story as with Mastodon as both are based on ActivityPub. Here is a thread where to people from Google discuss how Google is able to index federated content. I would be curious about what a good solution to the duplicated content would look like. Google would probably want to direct you to a lemmy instance that has good performance but you would really like to see the same content in your personal Lemmy instance’s web ui. Maybe there could be a browser extension that redirects you from other instances back to your home one?