1mo ago

Anyone else just stopped using reddit after not getting it in search results?

This just started yesterday or the day before. I use Firefox with Duckduckgo as a search engine. I wanted to look something up so I put the classical "reddit" at the end of my question. I couldnt find reddit at all. I was confused at first.

After searching it up I found out that reddit would only be indexed if you are using the google search engine. No more. I used to love reddit but now I'm tired of the website.

Lemmy for life!

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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
  
  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.
  
  Same! But I won't only search lemmy unless I want zero info
  
  Ok then post from all my communities then lol
- same

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