A week ago I could just use google to search for something specific and just append ‘site:reddit.com’ in the query and found the answer.
Multiple subreddits went from private to restricted recently so new posts are pretty close to zero and no new content is added.
If I assume people migrated to kbin/lemmy, how can I find an answer to my question/problem/wHaTeVeReLsE? I’m not speaking about searching for a Magazine/Community, or title of article, but users’ answers.
The thing I’m finding is that when I search for something where the fediverse has an answer, Google gives me the exact same answer like 20 different times on different instances. I wish Google would just list the original.
I believe Google can do this already, but it requires each Lemmy instance to tell Google that it’s not the “canonical” version, and which site is. I believe it’s possible for Lemmy and kbin to provide that information already, but in my quick check I don’t see them doing that yet. Will probably need to be a feature request.
Ref: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/consolidate-duplicate-urls