• yads@lemmy.world
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    Had this happen today. Was searching for some programming related stuff and top pages are all inaccessible Reddit posts.

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      1 year ago

      Hopefully it will help people realise that a profit motive being attached to everything is actually counterproductive societally.

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      About 4 people at work Monday discovered the blackouts and learned the reason from following Google results. I’d say that shows the effectiveness of the protest. That’s 4 individuals that I work with personally who wouldn’t have known otherwise about the api problem that now do. I can only imagine how many people are in that same boat.

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        Ditto, actually. The 3D printing communities I’ve seen here are just so much smaller.

    • worfamerryman@beehaw.org
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      Same, but it’s just growing pains.

      We should start rewriting posts in lemmy with the correct information.

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        Sad thing is most search engines suck/haven’t really indexed mostly anything in the fediverse. Wonder why

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          The fediverse is really not good for big companies. It cannot be monetized or controlled.

          It’s obvious you know this, but we just need a search engine that’s tuned to search the fediverse.