I've never seen it.

I also think it would kill Lemmy--getting to be the first results on Google is too valuable a prize. We'd be overrun by bots and astroturfed to hell.

yes it can happen

Depends on the instance, some can say “hey don’t index us” whereas others can say “hey index us so we grow”, each instance admin has that decision however search engines can ignore the request to not index and do it anyways.

IIRC, only once. It felt like seeing someone you know on TV.

Well, everyone starts somewhere, I guess.

Kagi has a filter specifically for fediverse

I've hardly see any really useful technical discussion on Lemmy rivaling the discussion on other sites. Mostly what I've seen here is people asking how to fix their grub on Linux mint or some such things.

Not really any specific swarming around other issues and/or attempts to resolve them so far. All discussion is mainly political or gets into those dumb reddit circle jerk comment sections where people just make funny/ironic comments. The type of behavior they leaned on reddit to farm karma but is mostly useless here.

Idk as the internet gets more and more massive it's hard to steer where the discussions happen if there aren't many relevant discussions already happening.

So the only think you'll probably find in a search engine related to Lemmy will be shitposting memes

Sometimes, yeah

No

Ones, when I was checking if it's even indexing.