One would hope! I can find results from lemmy instances on Google - they are definitely crawling them, but their page rank is going to start out very low.

The most popular one is !linux@lemmy.ml

It has felt pretty toxic more recently. Often I’d see something and end up just leaving to do something else, I’ve been describing it as the “two-minutes hate” internally for a while now.

On the flip side, I’d love if companies put up their own instance. Raspberry Pi hosts their own mastodon and I think it’s a good way for a company to have representation.

A “merge identical” option in the individual users’ ui would be kind of neat, to have one page.

I think using Communities is respectful to the people that were already doing community on Lemmy before the exodus.

Unfortunately they’re all copyrighted so won’t work for income.