While being decentralized certainly creates a barrier, most of the details behind PageRank (and the other algorithms in use by Google) are pretty well documented. If it doesn't already, throwing in Lemmy as a keyword should soon bring up a Lemmy intense (probably Lemmy.ml or Lemmy.World) as a top result. As people click those links, the results will go higher.

The bigger challenge is that the content you are trying to find isn't here yet. Those results on the old site were built over years of massive user engagement. Lemmy has barely had a month since people started joining en masse, and it's still a fraction of what we lost.

TL;DR: Just keep using it and spread the word. The rest will happen naturally

In most communities, old content isn't helpful. It doesn't start any conversations, and people don't look at the old stuff.

Stuff like porn, pics, aww, or other subs where the conversation wasn't the point are an exception.

Jewelry? Am I missing something here? Do people really buy jewelry for their...roommate?

While his comment is (mostly) technically correct, it misses the point.

When it happens, you will no longer have a small (but growing) community of Mastodon users - you'll have a bunch of nerds using a shitty version of Threads.

The number of people willing to die on this hill is actually quite surprising, and in a good way. So many people have made peace with leaving their subs, their mod powers, and even their entire Reddit accounts behind to fuck over that piece of shit running the place.

It won't be the enshittification that we're used to and that Cory Doctorow wrote about. The platform as a whole is unlikely to do that to us, although certain instances definitely will.

Instead, this will be more like an arms race. Bad actors (especially spammers) will try to force their content upon us, and we will do everything we can to block/prevent that. I'm including astroturfing as part of this, since it's being run by peer nodes (unaffiliated with the platform) instead of admins.

This is especially relevant right now. Meta (Facebook's parent company) is just now launching a (heavily) modified Mastodon instance. There is a push to immediately defederate them to keep them out (Source)

There's a good discussion about it here. But in short, if you allow a single dominant player to exist, they can effectively take over the entire ecosystem

Do you have a source on that? It doesn't smell right. Every platform (All of them. Every single one. No exceptions) that allows user-submitted images/videos has an issue that some of that content is illegal. CSAM is the most obvious, but not the only one. What made Tumblr different from the 20 million+ instances on Facebook? Source1, Source2 At the time, scrolling through r/All for just a few minutes was nearly certain to show something pornographic, although not CSAM.

The story I heard (admittedly, I'm having trouble finding a source at the moment) is that Tumblr's tools to remove CSAM weren't good enough. While they would remove the offending image when it was reported, they did not delete the connections to other users/groups. Which meant it was easy to find more, even after some had been removed. In turn, that meant that it quickly became the platform of choice for anyone uploading this stuff, creating a higher volume and ratio of illegal content.

While I know Apple has long been anti-porn, it seems unlikely that they would take such an arbitrary hard line while ignoring countless others.

I'm not sure why everyone thinks the lawyers would get involved. It doesn't matter what the guidelines technically say. Reddit has already proven to be extremely untrustworthy regarding their mod policy. If the admins want the mods out, the mods will simply be out.

But it sets a nice precedent/roadmap for the people still there even after the new mods (who have pledged fealty to the king) are installed. Countless people will do this until they get banned, hurting Reddit where it counts.

Imagine if, instead of robots, it was cars or SUVs (the parallels were obvious). Do you think people would accept that as a solution? People like having the robots around.

Besides, the ice cube solved the problem Once And For All

If anything, DB0 probably shouldn't. Only break 1 law at a time. Rights-holders would love to use anti-terrorism, anti-drug, or whatever other laws to take down a piracy site

That's not really a measure of the codec, but rather a measure of the encoder. A lot of x265 encoders are awful. They go with x265 for the smaller file sizes and over-compress it, similar to the old YIFY. Groups that use x264 already aren't as concerned with file size (if they were, they'd use x265), and choose settings that optimize for quality.