Well Google is in bed with Reddit. That's why Reddit posts show top in Google's results
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2026
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i have but it's not as effective
Fediverse content is generally not indexed by Google because it's doesn't have predictable landing pages or site indexes. It moves and changes.
If something is shared enough on enough places and has enough anchor/hard links backs to something, it will probably show up.
I've already seen plenty of Lemmy search results.
Kagi has a fediverse filter
It seems like it does get indexed, but it doesn't show up very high. I'm assuming nobody is bothering with SEO.
Do the following search:
iran site:lemmy.world
It's an aggregation issue, the same content provided on multiple servers is considered spam and ranks low
And Iran.....Iran so far away! I just Iran.....Iran all night and day..... I couldn't get away (from my country starting pointless warsin the middle east)
Flock of Bushtits
"Fediverse content" is absolutely indexed by Google, like everything else on the public web. Why would Google choose to ignore it just because it is from the fediverse?
But it usually doesn't show up very prominently, and which instances' copies do show up can be completely unpredictable. Probably the search built into fediverse software is more useful if you want to specifically search here.
It will show the instance where the post originated from. That is achieved through the canonical html meta tag that is available for exactly this purpose.
Well, for the exact reason I said. Google ignores reference to anything without other corroboration. Hard or anchor links are necessary.
Fediverse content requires fluidity, and the same content is available at dozens of places. If they scrape the same post at different endpoint URIs, it will be discarded as spam.
This isn't even news, it's a known thing, and Google themselves described this in their SEO docs. No Fediverse instance is going to be spending money with Google to get a higher ranking, so it's just kind of not going to show up.
Duplicate content is no problem. All posts have a canonical tag that points to the source post. Google will automatically only add that one URL to the index.
Protip - don't use google.
I actually want to have an answer to my question, not have the moral upper hand
It's a partial answer. Google enshittified search to get people looking more, thus displaying more ads. They are deliberately fucking with you.
First step, use non enshittified tools. I get better results from non google searches.
Kagi has a fediverse search
as i tried to type smth about tech and lemmy at the end and didnt get anything useful.
Putting lemmy on the end does suggest to the engine what you want, but you can command it to do what you want instead.
Do the following search: ryzen site:lemmy.world
There's also a SearxNG Lemmy engine although you'll probably have to self-host it unless a public instance has configured it. Failing that, site:lemmy.world should work in most cases.
~~fediversesearch.com~~ another site uses a similar Google trick but instead of a specific domain, it filters by footer text that appears in the default Lemmy UI such as "Modlog".
This is a comment affirming that the other comments have answered this question
Not really, just try asking around.