Did Reddit get massive because of Digg users making a beeline towards them or were they already big before that?

  • mholiv@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think we should prioritize SEO.

    If you get a link to a Lemmy post you can’t see the contents nor the comments of the post until you click a further link. Or at least I can’t.

    And that means google can’t either.

    We need to get to the point where people are adding “Lemmy” to their search posts like they do for Reddit today.

    Doing a google search for “best budget backpack Lemmy” should bring up results like “best budget backpack Reddit” does today.

    • decadentrebel@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      It doesn’t help that the thread URLs are some old school “post/4268567”.

      I also noticed that the markdown format is included (e.g. the hashmarks for headings, asterisks for bold/italics) in search results while every other site doesn’t look like that.

    • Nurgle@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This isn’t the only answer but it’s a big one. Having both the communities where people can authoritatively answer niche questions and the ability for new people to find those communities/questions is absolutely critical.