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I'm seeing an unusual amount of reddit style small comments on this outage, which I find strange. They're short and in the vein of "Facebook is down: good" or "Facebook is back up: damn nothing good lasts forever" I understand the distain for Facebook as a business, but still this is pretty low effort.
And HackerNews seems to be much faster as soon as FB is back up. Not sure if this is just me.
True for me as well. What would explain this? Does hn use some tracking from FB? Not trying to throw shade, but this is a surprising correlation.
Can't wait for the post mortem technical post
And HackerNews seems to be much faster as soon as FB is back up. Not sure if this is just me.
During the time Facebook (and related properties) have been unavailable, I can't help but feel a little better about the world. There is so much hate, arguments, misinformation, angry, and harmful messaging on FB platforms. It's nice to know all of that crap is just....gone. At least for a little while.
It does feel nice, like the oppressor has died, at least for a bit. Also fun to watch the scramble to get it back online, would be nice if it never came back :)
It’s a website that shows you what your friends are doing. That’s it. People said the same things about television
Nothing important for the world. But at least the employees could be able to enter the building.
That's a pretty ignorant statement. Facebook and its services, especially Whatsapp, are the most widespread form of communication in many countries. Particularly in poor/developing countries, hardly anything else is used because mobile Internet is available cheaply, unlike voice services and SMS. Whatsapp is indispensable there. See https://www.statista.com/statistics/291540/mobile-internet-u... for example.
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It does feel nice, like the oppressor has died, at least for a bit. Also fun to watch the scramble to get it back online, would be nice if it never came back :)
>the oppressor It’s a website that shows you what your friends are doing. That’s it. People said the same things about television
Very disappointing. Hopefully some enterprising ransomware gang can do the world a service and encrypt all of FB's data for them, possibly upgrade all of their servers and backups to being /dev/null hosts entirely. A man can dream.
A politician decides to run on the platform of getting rid of social media and/or breaking up big tech.
Big tech has not only the money to run attack ads 24/7, they also have access to all your embarrassing photos, location history, drunk texts, searches, etc, so more than enough ammo to make even a saint look like a sleazeball.
And HackerNews seems to be much faster as soon as FB is back up. Not sure if this is just me.