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Feedbacks for the fediverse (from all over the internet)

Let me know if this is appropriate for this community.

I've been collecting links to post, blog, article, comment, etc that criticize the fediverse, whether it's about the specific apps or fediverse in general, whether it's about the technical aspect or about the social aspect.

If you also found one, feel free to share it here.

(date format is YYYY-MM-DD)

2024

2023

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    • Search engines definitely crawl Lemmy, I've seen Lemmy posts pop up on Duckduckgo

      • They do, but the fact that users are separated across hundreds of instances means that all Lemmy-related websites won't appear high in the search.

        • If SEO index is based on user count, can't websites just create thousands of fake users to boost their index?

          • search engines are giant algorithms that I don't think anybody truly gets, but it does rule out bots. The popularity of the website and how often people click on it are taken into account, and the problem is that the fediverse is split into hundreds of domains. It doesn't help that the content is the exact same across instances so fedi websites could just be marked as spam.

            • hundreds of domains

              https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

              Filter by monthly active users, when you reach the 31st most active instance you are already at 187 users. 41st is 102 users. 51st is 34 users.

              Most of the 44k monthly active users are on the top 20, so it's more around 20-50 domains than hundreds.

              fedi websites could just be marked as spam.

              That could definitely be

      • Lemmy.world definitely shows up a lot. But I wonder what could still be improved. The amount of content, I wonder? Not an expert on SEO, but SEO-wise lemmy is doing great, no?

        • Not an seo expert but.

          Lemmy and fediverse should theoreticly be doing very well according to the traditional metrics of site value (backlinks etc). I suspect some engines like google have marked it as seo gaming/abuse and thus deranked it. Unfortunatly lemmy gets each instance ranked individually instead of a ranking for fediverse as a whole. Ultimately its an issue cos dns is outdated.

        • Not an expert on SEO, but SEO-wise lemmy is doing great, no?

          Not a SEO expert, but nowadays it seems to be quite different between one search engine and the other

    • Good one

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