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.

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

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

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

Was a pain.

Same, but it’s just growing pains.

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