I did a couple of searches with duckduckgo and google, finding that unlike reddit it doesnt really suggest posts on lemmy, just whole communities. Im curious if this is unavoidable with this number of users or if there is a way to make search engines suggest better lemmy results and make the resources accumulating here useful for a broader audience.
You’re kinda right? It’ll be harder for links to be considered authoritative by google since they’ll be across a bunch of smaller websites with fewer references to them (unlike reddit, which is 1 website with billions of links to it).
But maybe it’ll work somewhat anyway since every page has “Join Lemmy” text in the bottom & google might be able to link them together.
On the other hand I have no idea and I’m just going off my vague understanding of how the google algorith m works.