• Chozo
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    I think we still rank pretty far behind even Lemmy Koopa in the search results.

  • LEM 1689
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    1026 days ago

    Brain’s out, total amnesia

    Get some mental aneasthesia

    Don’t move, I’ll shut the door and kill the lights

    I guess I’ll see you all on the ice

    All good clean fun

    Have another stick of gum

    Man, you look better already

    Motörhead, remember me now

    Motörhead, alright

  • @[email protected]
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    One of the only thing I miss about Reddit was their very active Guitar subs. So I Googled Lemmy Guitar to search for some active forums, and was disappointed that all I got were Lemmy Motorhead links.

    If anybody knows any active guitar forums on Lemmy, please let me know. The only ones I found are extremely quiet, with days, weeks, or even months between posts. I can’t be the only guitarist on Lemmy, so where are they all hanging out?

      • @[email protected]
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        121 days ago

        I’m planning on getting active on the guitar comms by posting stuff, but Ive been so busy lately. I have time to comment, but posting takes a lot more effort, but Ill be starting over the next week or so, and try to revive a few of these places.

        In the meantime, ithers should start posting as well.

    • Lovable SidekickOP
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      825 days ago

      That’s my experience trying to find any specific subject matter on lemmy, google tries to relate it to Motorhead.

      • skulblaka
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        I’ve had middling results using “Lemmy Fediverse” in search strings instead of just “Lemmy”. You still get a lot of Motorhead though.

        • Madbrad200
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          125 days ago

          just filter by your instance, e.g google thing_youre_interested_in site:sh.itjust.works

      • Madbrad200
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        are you guys just not aware you can filter by site?

        guitar site:lemmy.world

        • Fonzie!
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          That doesn’t help with all the different Lemmy instances, but searching on a Lemmy instance does… Well, the search function is janky so it works kinda, but it searches a lot of Lemmy instances alright!

          • Madbrad200
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            It should work fine. Filtering by one instance will show all Lemmy content. You can use a script to ensure you always land back on your instance.

  • oppy1984
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    1125 days ago

    That “Motorhead guy” was Lemmy Kilmister and he played rock and roll.

  • @[email protected]
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    4826 days ago

    Maybe if we post news about Lemmy on Lemmy, it will turn more Lemmy fans into Lemmy fans?

    • @[email protected]
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      1726 days ago

      I don’t know if you mean turn Lemmy fans into lemmy fans, or lemmy fans into Lemmy fans. But either way, I’m for it.

    • oppy1984
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      625 days ago

      I’m a Lemmy fan and I’m posting on lemmy, so I’m all for posting more about Lemmy on lemmy.

  • @[email protected]
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    the Motorhead guy was a living legend

    he’ll be the biggest Lemmy for at least another generation

  • @[email protected]
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    626 days ago

    Before the whole reddit fiasco, many of my search results were directed to include reddit. I wish I could do the same with Lemmy but no one comments so it’s not worth it.

    I’m so conflicted right now.

    • Possibly linux
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      125 days ago

      I wish Duckduckgo would add a band that would search all of Lemmy via Activitypub

    • qaz
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      Plenty of people comment on Lemmy, but I think the main issue is that everything is split over multiple domains which seems to be ranked lower by search engines. I’ve recently been seeing Lemmy.world in Google search results, and even some from the “smaller” instances such as sh.itjust.works and db0.

      Searxng has a way to query threadiverse posts, perhaps that works better.

  • @[email protected]
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    Depends on what search engine you use… Google is pretty bad. Kagi has been showing Lemmy links for years.

    • @[email protected]
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      I was looking for a post on Lemmy yesterday with a vague couple of keywords, used Kagi with “Fediverse forums” lens and bam, right there at the top was the post I was looking for, from a year ago! I couldn’t believe it.

      It’s like how everyone used to search Reddit with site:reddit rather than using the reddit search. Except you can’t do that too easily for Lemmy because of all the instances. But the Kagi lens does a pretty impressive job of solving that.

  • @[email protected]
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    Sometimes, I think about the fact that if I post something really useful here, our traffic’s still so comparatively small that it probably won’t come up in a search engine query.

    But that’s the way I like it, baby - I don’t want to live forever.