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That feeling when you're googling the answer to some technical question, and your own Lemmy post appears 4 results down. (lemmy.one)
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Hopefully this kind of content is ok here. Up until recently, when I would be searching for some kind of technical info, the top (and best) results would usually all be Reddit posts. I was very pleasantly surprised to do that this time and find a Lemmy post instead!

...It did happen to be a post from me, so unfortunately didn't answer my question at all, but I still thought it was really neat and wanted to share. Has anyone else seen Lemmy stuff getting indexed and turning up in their search results?

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[–] mark@programming.dev 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Take that, Stack Overflow! Programming.dev on deck!!!! Let's gooooooo

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I honestly think Programming.dev is very well positioned to become a "programming reddit" of sorts. Nice polished sounding domain name, and a discussion platform visually similar to Discourse but with the grunt of the fediverse behind it.

The only thing holding it back is probably a setting for showing local communities by default, when logged out browsing. Whenever that feature arrives in Lemmy then 👌

[–] snowe@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

hm. when I test in a private browsing mode it shows Local by default. That doesn't happen for you?

also:

I honestly think Programming.dev is very well positioned to become a “programming reddit” of sorts. Nice polished sounding domain name, and a discussion platform visually similar to Discourse but with the grunt of the fediverse behind it.

is exactly what I was going for when I created the instance so I'm glad to see others think it could succeed!