Fediverse

Discord is bad because its forums are not world-readable, therefore not indexable. It's very useful to the rest of the world to have conversations be public. The youngest users here may not even remember but searching Google in the 2000s before Facebook went huge and when forums were all world-readable, it was a different experience altogether. You could find somebody who was talking about your niche issue/product - no matter what it was. It was kind of magical. No matter what thing happened to you, you could be pretty sure it had happened to someone else and they were talking about it somewhere and Google would see it and point it out to you.

Not anymore. Everything's on Facebook now and Google can't see it, nor can anyone else - except Facebook. All that legacy knowledge just tucked away in Facebook's data vault and essentially useless to anybody but Facebook, which makes it less than useless.

Looks like Lemmy has great indexabiliy: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aeurope.pub

europe.pub is only about two weeks old and hundreds of pages have already been indexed. Currently setting up the Google Search Console to get more details.

Lemmy is as indexable as Reddit, if not more so.

Not only that, the ongoing discussion format means all knowledge is in the same place and people don't need to keep asking the same question over and over by creating new posts and you don't end up with the same conversation happening in three different branches of the same post like on Reddit/Lemmy.