To see the original discussion, you can see this thread: https://lemmy.ca/post/8488573
To open the post on your instance you can go to !lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world and see the recent top posts, or use an app/frontend/ browser extension (ex. !instance_assistant@lemmy.ca)
Alternatively, here is the screenshot from the post.
I also wanted to share this tip for how you can filter for Lemmy posts when searching:
- Search using
site:home_instance. So if I wanted to find recommended phones, I could gosite:lemmy.ca recommended phones. Since every instance has its own collection of posts, you will be getting results from all over Lemmy. The limitation is that you won’t see content from instances that aren’t federated with yours, but you probably didn’t want to see that stuff anyway since you picked your instance for a reason. You can also put any instance into the search if you wanted different results.
Question to everyone, what does Lemmy need to make it easier for people to find content? What are the implications of the Fediverse on how people might find content in the future?
One thing is that people are more likely to get posts from the larger instances, likely because more people are linking to them and opening those links? Another thought was the common complaint about how our post links aren’t community specific. While I can search for posts using the method above, I can’t search within a specific community like I can with Reddit (ex. I can’t search site:lemmy.ca/c/Vancouver recommended restaurants
EDIT: The issues for it are here, looks like the devs are good with it now and someone just needs to implement it:
Let’s fucking go
Reddit, we’re coming for you. Better watch your back. Sleep with one eye open. 😏
Clutching your upvotes tight
Exit old.reddit.com
Enter https://old.lemmy.zip/
And old.lemmy.ca, in fact enter all the great instances running multiple front ends :)
One big issue that Lemmy has because it’s a distributed service is the dilution of results.
For example, there is only one Reddit domain (that people use to access the service) but there are hundreds/thousands of Lemmy domains and the dilution will continue to increase as Lemmy’s popularity increases. It’s either that or there will only be a couple of Lemmy instances that will dominate all of Lemmy.
Good! I love it here and I think others will too :)
This is neat… I just tried “faceting lemmy” and my community came up on top.
I read this wrong and thought it was an auto-correct from “face sitting”. :/
Your community is neat! Subscribed :)
Consider promoting it on !communitypromo@lemmy.ca, or other similar communities
Did the same thing, now the linked thread is shown and not the discution
It would help a lot more with SEO-friendly URLs. https://lemmy.ml/post/7417691 is not very SEO friendly at all.
there’s an issue here on that which could use support and boosting!
would the suggestion be to have the post title in the URL?
That would be ideal, you’d have some sort of slugged title in the URL, yeah.
This is the first time I’ve ever seen positive sentiment for Google+ online.
I come from early YouTube where it was forced upon us from above, so I’m genuinely curious as to what positives you see in it.
I have a question, I have posted with my lemmy.zip acccount to a community hosted on feddit.ro, and when I search the title only lemmy.world appears, even tho i didnt post it there, any idea why?
It means many people are using lemmy.world instance to view your post instead of lemmy.zip or feddit.ro.
Every instance stores what are essentially copies of everything it’s users are subscribed to. So when you post “to” feddit.ro, you’re posting to the copy on lemmy.zip. Similarly, Lemmy.world has their own copy (that for whatever reason is ranking higher in search) because someone there is presumeably subscribed to the community.
Adding a bit more to the other comments
The post should exist on all 3 instances (as well as any other instance federated with feddit.ro). However lemmy.world is bigger and so more people are likely linking to /from that instance, which mean Google is indexing it with higher priority.
The other instances should probably show up over time?
You can post with an archive?
I’ve not tinkered around with it too much yet, but how has your experience been with actually viewing the results? I would imagine that most results are statically likely to be for an instance other than the one you have an account on, requiring a few extra steps to load the post in your home instance if you wanted to vote/comment on it.
This is one of those UX things that I think is still holding Lemmy back from more mainstream adoption, imo.
It’s hit and miss most of the time. I just tried Lemmy memes and it redirects to lemmy.ml and the memes community.
Then I tried Lemmy how do I wash my kitten and there was an answer. Again for Lemmy ml. I think it depends on whether there is a post answering the question and if people commented on it.
You can make that a bit less painful with browser extensions. ‘Instance Assistant for Lemmy & kbin’, for example, will always show a button to open a page in your home server. Not sure if there’s anything exactly like it here yet but FediAct for Mastodon lets you like/boost/follow/comment on other servers directly, more or less eliminating the other-servers problem.
Would I be contributing if I was using a mobile app like eternity or voyager?
Activity and comment contribute
Yes
Honestly, I’d rather it not. Just accelerates the social media platform life cycle. Any other search engine. Google, no thanks.
I don’t know. How about the millions of sites that don’t appear in a Google search. Do what they did.
Lol as if Google isn’t the leader in enshitification.
Swag. The more we show up in search, the more people will be asking “what the heck is Lemmy?” Some of 'em will join.
Well then. Here. We. Go.
Swag, brah.
I have been regularly sharing shit with friends that I see in Lemmy, and they always said to me why my links always have weird names and domains and shit… so I proceed to explain and we get to nowhere.
Anyway this is people that weren’t even into Reddit, so that people are the harder to get, IMHO.
I’ve had success describing it as “imagine you owned the server your Facebook info was stored on but could still interact with all other Facebook servers”. It’s a little simplified, but it usually gets the point across.
Sounds like a “them” problem, you keep doing what you’re doing. Maybe they’ll eventually get it, maybe not. Unless you give up sharing content with them entirely, of course, but that’s your choice.
We did it, Reddit
Watch spez squirm every time lemmy improves
spez wants to remove Reddit from Google actively, so at least for this specifically I sincerely doubt he minds. Of course, the main reason he wants thatis only that he wants to inflate Reddit’s perceived investor value, so not sure what that even helps. But eh.
Spez is a maroon
Now, off to solve a bombing
That’s cool. I seem to have issues finding this post, or the top post of the day (https://sh.itjust.works/post/8365139) by searching:
site:sh.itjust.works After watching the 2nd episode of 11th season of FuturamaAnd I’m not getting the correct result. Am I doing it right, but there’s something else affecting the results (top of day for lemmy isn’t as popular as needed to show up on google, bing, nor DDG)? or am I making a mistake somewhere?I don’t think the instance is the issue like the other comment is suggesting (although I don’t quite understand the specifics of how it works). I’m playing around with it myself right now
If I search
site:sh.itjust.works Helloand set it to 24 hours, I do see posts. So timing should be ok tooUpdate: So I think what’s happening is that the post needs to go through a few stages when it’s on a different instance
- Someone posts on a foreign instance (https://foreign.example.com/post/123444
- Someone on your instance views the post, which generates a link on your instance for that post (ex. https://example.com/post/135799)
- Google indexes your home instance and grabs that post
So we’re probably between steps 2 and 3 right now?
It’s on lemmy.ca, which is a different instance than sh.itjust.works, surprisingly. That’s probably your mistake.
