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I have been thinking about this. For other sites it is super easy to google e.g. "bifl socks reddit" but with federated services the information is scattered across many domains/services that the search engines do not know are federated. There either needs to be a site that archives everything in real time that search engines can crawl, or a robust search engine specifically designed for searching posts on all known instances.
Full disclosure I am not an expert on the topic these are just my thoughts.
You're kinda right? It'll be harder for links to be considered authoritative by google since they'll be across a bunch of smaller websites with fewer references to them (unlike reddit, which is 1 website with billions of links to it).
But maybe it'll work somewhat anyway since every page has "Join Lemmy" text in the bottom & google might be able to link them together.
On the other hand I have no idea and I'm just going off my vague understanding of how the google algorith m works.