The protests worked, and so did moving/editing/deleting our old content. As one person complains,
I’m not here for Reddit, but for the aggregation of niche communities. I follow a lot of obscure manga that have relatively small followings and recently I got into an IT job which opened a lot of technological exploration for me. The worst part about this change isn’t even that we are losing 3rd party apps, but that only members of the communities I frequent are the ones who care enough to protest. Can’t tell you how many times now I’ve looked something up on Reddit and find an answer to the issue I have, only to realize that the community is closed or the post is deleted in protest. Now we are stuck in this limbo where protests seem to have lost their steam, niche communities are being overthrown and killed because of that greedy little pigboy. Seriously, fuck spez.
Are kbin or Lemmy posts being indexed by search engines? If the content was created, would anyone be able to find it?
If we build it, they will come.
Yes, they are: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Akbin.social+reddit
I think Kbin isn’t, because of bandwidth/CPU concerns.
Shows up in site searches on Google, as the other response points out.
I don’t know about the update frequency.
To clarify, I meant posts on kbin/Lemmy, so that someone would land on kbin/Lemmy when searching for things, like people do now with Reddit.
FWIW, when i go to duckduckgo and search for “site:kbin.social google fediverse” I get a couple of good results, such as https://kbin.social/m/fediverse/t/2/What-is-the-Fediverse and https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/14974/Will-searching-the-Fediverse-like-Google-ever-become-possible
There’s quite a bit of noise as well atm but i figure this will get better as we get more content on the fediverse and more stuff gets indexed.