One thing Reddit dominates on is search results. I’m looking things up and seeing so many links to reddit, which I guess is going to help keep that place relevant (unless those subreddits stay dark).
I wondered how Lemmy and this fed thingy stuff all works for that? With more posts can we expect to see people arriving through search results?
Yeah I think it will happen but maybe more slowly. From a search engine’s perspective it is combing results for a particular site, so search results will be shown that way. However, it seems that this would also mean that the same post would be found across multiple sites, which I can only see as a good thing in terms of searchability. Looking for some old obscure post on reddit? The results are only going to come from one site. Same kind of search on Lemmy? Search results could show pages of results of the same post but on several different sites. I’d think that would actually boost the efficacy of searching Lemmy.
Also site search features like googling “site:lemmy.one [search terms]” would still allow you to search just on one site at a time, returning deeper results.