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!

  • abolishredditnaw@lemmy.worldOP
    16·
    3 days ago

    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

    • VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • orcrist@lemm.ee
        5·
        3 days ago

        It would not be on top of Google regardless, because it isn’t paying for the ad slot there.

        • Hubi
          4·
          2 days ago

          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.