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Lemmy content findability
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this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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Relaxed section for discussion and debate that doesn't fit anywhere else. Whether it's advice, how your week is going, a link that's at the back of your mind, or something like that, it can likely go here.
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For results to appear in search engines they need to be indexed by their crawlers (bots that check webpages and analyse their content, following up any links they find in that page) so it takes time. As a Lemmy instance becomes more popular, more links will show up for it in other websites and by consequence more crawlers will index its pages.
Isn't another issue that it requires Javascript for the content to be visible?
Not that i'm aware, I think sites without Javascript should be indexed even better since they are easier to parse by the crawlers.
Yeah that's my point - Lemmy requires JavaScript whereas Reddit will still show the comments without it (at least on old Reddit IIRC).