As Edward Ongweso Jr said:
*“Facebook service outage is really a great data point for the argument that we should not have a global social media platform that dominates multiple lines of communication across various countries and regions.”
That’s why everyone should use FOSS alternatives
People needs to use federated/decentralized alternatives.
Everyone should use FOSS alternatives, but lets not pretend Signal or Matrix don’t go down as well for example. If you mean federated, then that’s another story.
Good riddance
Based on some details and guesses it might have been sabotage by a disgruntled Facebook employee? At least it seems to be something that originated from their own network and the timing in relation to those wistleblower news is a bit curious.
Well, looks more like some security snafu after all:
Update, 6:16 p.m. ET: A trusted source who spoke with a person on the recovery effort at Facebook was told the outage was caused by a routine BGP update gone wrong. The source explained that the errant update blocked Facebook employees — the majority of whom are working remotely — from reverting the changes. Meanwhile, those with physical access to Facebook’s buildings couldn’t access Facebook’s internal tools because those were all tied to the company’s stranded domains.
hopefully never back up
In name of God impure policy privacy of the world shall be banished into eternal damnation.
amen.
And I anyway don’t use either of them.
lol yeah
They’re all the biggest privacy violators, not to mention the general toxicity. I remember one post which represented which companies collect your data the most and insta came at the top at a score of like 80%.
Praying to Allah they don’t come back up ever again
Allah is not enough. You need the power of friendship with all gods.
Hell yeah!
My WhatsApp message reply is not going through, and Barinsta is not loading any profile.
Just saw this too from a friend, insta is down.
I am hearing a lot of AWS is down as well.
https://twitter.com/RealOldPaul/status/1445122610157834244
What if this was true?
