• @[email protected]
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    502 years ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      182 years ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      152 years ago

      Same. Had some things I needed to look up for my 3D printer and much of the results were inaccessible.

      Was a pain.

    • GreyBeard
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      102 years ago

      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.

    • PhantomPeeper
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      82 years ago

      Same. I found it funny though. Showed that if we tried we can cause some chaos

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      Same, but it’s just growing pains.

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

      • James_Harmony
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        22 years ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          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.