I was wondering if the nature of decentralization would negatively affect SEO, since people can access the same post from many different instance
Google brings it up
https://lemmy.ml/robots.txt , https://lemmy.world/robots.txt , etc don’t seem to disallow posts, so the text-based content should be easy to index, at least for these instances.
related news: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts.
The second link for me when searching for Lemmy on Google is the link to the “Join Lemmy” website. Surprisingly, Brave Search, which has seemingly no search bubbles or accounts, shows the same.
Sorry I didnt make the post very clear. I was referring to an individual posts when people search for a specific issue/discussion in Lemmy.
I tried searching for the title of this post verbatim and it isn’t in google results period.
That could just be because of lag between when the post is created and when the Google crawler finds/indexes the page