What’s the value of posting “fluff”? If you’re just trying to get engagement for engagement sake, why?

I’d check his post history before engaging. He’s trying to rebuild a spammy, dishonest right wing space in Lemmy.

He’s free to do so, but it’s just going to bring in trolls, bots, bad faith arguments, and extreme posting to sell shit.

I get that it’s inevitable, but let’s be careful what we’re encouraging.

In the eyes of a search engine, yes.

But once a site is popular enough for traffic and engagement to influence it’s position in search, it’s def going to be popular enough for bots, trolls, bad faith actors, grifters, etc.

Google isn’t thrilled with duplicate content. Following this thread here, it sounds like identical content might be hosted on multiple servers? If that is so, it’s not going to be high value in Google’s eyes.

If it’s indexed, you’ll be able to search it with Boolean modifiers, but it might not get priority in organic searches.

I don’t think lack of SEO is the issue. There’s just not enough content and brand/domain authority to get results from here high in SERPS.

There might be something fediverse related that would affect performance in search, but I’m not knowledgeable enough about this setup to speak to it.

I think it’s just lack of content, general awareness/interest, and longevity that’s keeping Lemmy low in search

I could see myself doing the same, but I only browse mobile. Without a decent app, it’s just not happening.

However, Lemmy now feels like the super early days of Reddit and I don’t want to give that up.

Just real conversations, normal comments, none of the repeated Reddit jokes in every thread, and minimal right wing trolling

We don’t want to be in the public eye. Let’s enjoy what we have while it lasts