Observation: Right now, if someone wants to find an answer to a question, they can type that question into Google and add “reddit” to the end. This usually provides the answer that someone is looking for. I have tried a few random searches with the addition of “lemmy” to the end, with no such results. As Google’s search engine seemed to shift focus and SEO became disastrously popular, I think reddit also saw increase in popularity because of the simple fact that you could append “reddit”.
Inquiry: Does/will lemmy (fediverse?) have the same potential for content discoverability?
I think eventually we’ll get there for this. It takes time but SEO will likely happen.
Time is important though, I think it’ll be quite a bit of time (years) before it’s as useful as appending reddit.