Grandad - “Remember grandson, a long time ago there was a worldwide pandemic.”
Grandson - “was that before or after the World Wide Facebook Outage of 2021?”
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From a cloudflare blog post on this, their public DNS resolvers were getting 30x their usual traffic. Presumably that was the case for DNS resolvers everywhere, so that would explain a slowdown: > But that's not all. Now human behavior and application logic kicks in and causes another exponential effect. A tsunami of additional DNS traffic follows. > This happened in part because apps won't accept an error for an ans…
> their public DNS resolvers were getting 30x their usual traffic But why does my browser need to do a DNS lookup every time I request a page from HN? It's not like the IP address changes every 5 minutes.
Cloudflare and similar companies only work if the TTL is very short. If they set it to some infinite number, they wouldn't be do even the most basic load balancing at the global scale in which they operate.
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#233I just tried to open a hacker news link and go redirected to Facebook login page. A friend trying to open a ‘Facebook is up’ Twitter tread got the same login page. Anyone else?
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#234I just got redirected to a fb login page when trying to open a hacker news link. The same happened to a friend opening a Twitter thread. Anyone else?
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#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
Telegram was down for me too WhatsApp is still down Something else is actually going on…
That doesn't mean something else is going on. It means that there are a lot of us who are web addicts who were temporarily deprived of our Zucker-smack and desperately flailed about in the rest of the web for a fix until our main dose got restored. As for WhatsApp, that is of course a FB property.
I'm still thinking it's BGP poisoning of some top platforms... no one really knows what's going on, but BGP isn't byzantine fault tolerant
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/10/faceb...
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you date on Facebook? I barely ever use it these days, but I would never connect with strangers on there. I feel like I'm missing something here.
Friend randoms and get to know them over time through public wall interactions; switch to DMs if things are clicking I've sent thousands of FB friend requests to strangers suggested by the algo; the vast majority accept. I have met some of my favorite people in the world this way. Also some huge assholes/crazies, of course. Sometimes they are the same people
Why would you want a complete stranger to see all your personal stuff?
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
The public is tired of being gaslighted and lied to by large corporations. The whistle-blower only brought to light what we have known previously, Facebook is a net loss for humanity. Letting people contect with family and long lost friends is good. Purposefully pitting people against each other, human experimentation https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook... , creating hateful echo chambers, cl…
In Germany, each year a committee of linguists select an "un-word of the year". "Gaslit" should be the internet unword of the decade. It has no scientific relevance and shouldn't be used when perfectly fine alternatives like "lied to" or "manipulated" exist. They just don't sound as dramatic I guess.
It seems like your comment originates from a misunderstanding of what 'to gaslight' means?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
Gaslighting is a specific form of manipulation that uses intentionally false narratives.
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#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
In your list you left out a bunch of ads that were chosen based on targeted surveillance of the private lives of you and your friends.
Sure, although it doesn't seem to be doing very well at the targetting. All of the ads seem to revolve around a singular life event that I recently posted about.
Facebook sells ads. Facebook doesn't care if the ads work.
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#239During 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's interesting how Facebook experiences differ. To me it's a peaceful place showing mundane updates from friends and family, with zero politics. Plus, a bunch of niche hobby groups I subscribed, full of very kind and constructive people. The actual war zone to me is Twitter, not Facebook. I should add that I'm not from the US.
Yeah. For me, the overwhelming majority of my feed is just photos of my friends' babies and children.
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#240Anyone else slightly sad that it's back?