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Re: Tell HN: WhatsApp Is Down

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Post by Razengan »

Global communication protocols and interfaces should be left to the ISPs, just like email and NNTP etc. used to be, and DNS still is.

Really, why can't everything be like DNS? You ask the nearest available authority about something, and that in turn asks the next nearest authority, until that shit is found. Would work for web search too.

When you need a pretty UI just put different client apps on top of it, just like we did/do for email and newsgroups.

Re: Tell HN: WhatsApp Is Down

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Post by danpalmer »

In my experience WhatsApp has around 1 hour of (noticeable?) downtime a year, although not evenly spread out. That's about 99.99% available, which I'd consider pretty damn good for a consumer application. There's almost no person or business who will have a real problem caused by that. Let's not blow things out of proportion.

Re: Tell HN: WhatsApp Is Down

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Post by teekert »

berkes wrote: post #39
arcanemachiner wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this not just another centralized point of failure?

I'm presuming GP does not put Signal forward as a solution to outages. But instead uses the opportunity to talk about messengers and show that there are alternatives in general. At least, that is what I do.

Yes it's what I do, and then I actively struggle to hold back on pushing Matrix/Element as the solution. The beauty of the federated system, it's the way the internet was intended to function, oh man I love talking about it. But, nobody unaware of Signal will ever run their own Matrix server of course.

Signal is simple, recognizable, very much like WA. A WA outage is indeed a good point in time to have a lighthearted conversation about messengers and platforms. A lot of people still don't realize Meta owns WA.

What I like is that the normy friends I have on Signal are now telling all their normy friends/colleagues about Signal and how we are still apping away while WA is down.

Re: Tell HN: WhatsApp Is Down

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Post by shaan7 »

masklinn wrote: post #45
schnitzelstoat wrote: post #42

In Europe it's used a lot by small businesses etc. it's pretty bad if it's not reliable. The metaverse better be real good, else Meta will be in serious decline.

> The metaverse better be real good They’ve invented legs, I’m not sure what else you’d need.

Wings, obviously.
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