While Lemmy is gradually growing and the whole federation is a pretty good concept too I have one question about lemmy and it’s future.
Since it’s just two devs maintaining the whole project (I know there are many open source contributors but the project is on them right?) what if they get tired of the project or go MIA? Can a fork be made and that can be maintained as a replacement of lemmy?
How are and will be the SEO of the lemmy’s instances? Reddit reached a wide audience due to that. It’s nice to have a niche set of audience at the start but that should not be the case forever right?
Instance owners tend to focus on making a sound backend that scales effectively. Im guessing SEO is not high on the priorities for instance owners. It takes time and is a mix of an art and science and it isn’t really a 1 size fits all.
With that being said, I think the SEO will largely be on the front-end devs who build 3rd part apps that run on the various instances. IMO this makes more sense since front-ends can connect to all the various instances available so it’s higher up the funnel.
Source: Experience working in SEO + developer of the lemmy web app Quiblr
While Lemmy is gradually growing and the whole federation is a pretty good concept too I have one question about lemmy and it’s future.
Since it’s just two devs maintaining the whole project (I know there are many open source contributors but the project is on them right?) what if they get tired of the project or go MIA? Can a fork be made and that can be maintained as a replacement of lemmy?
How are and will be the SEO of the lemmy’s instances? Reddit reached a wide audience due to that. It’s nice to have a niche set of audience at the start but that should not be the case forever right?
FYI If you want you can join matrix and talk to the devs and see what is going on, they aren’t like cloistered and anonymous
1- yes.
2- I don’t know
Is Lemmy Indexable?
This.
We don’t need a winner, we need a vibrant community.
I can chime in on your second question
Instance owners tend to focus on making a sound backend that scales effectively. Im guessing SEO is not high on the priorities for instance owners. It takes time and is a mix of an art and science and it isn’t really a 1 size fits all.
With that being said, I think the SEO will largely be on the front-end devs who build 3rd part apps that run on the various instances. IMO this makes more sense since front-ends can connect to all the various instances available so it’s higher up the funnel.
Source: Experience working in SEO + developer of the lemmy web app Quiblr
Checked out your web app and it was really good. Good work.