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Re: Meta outage

#281
Looking at the Downdetector home page [1], it looks like many more services are having outages, not just the ones owned by Meta, including:

- Google

- YouTube

- Google Play

- T-Mobile

- X (Twitter)

- Discord

- TikTok

- Pokemon Go

- Snapchat

It looks like they all have the same failure point.

[1] https://downdetector.com

Re: Meta outage

#282

I love how no one here is talking about the "coincidental" timing that this is happening on Super Tuesday. Carry on, nothing to see here.

I have yet to see one plausible reason for why this would affect primary voting in any way. Voting is done at the local level on local hardware; we don't vote on Facebook.

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Re: Meta outage

#286

I love how no one here is talking about the "coincidental" timing that this is happening on Super Tuesday. Carry on, nothing to see here.

Same reason we're also not talking about the ten million non-coincidences that didn't seem to happen today. It's a kind of survivorship bias that coincidences seem like they mean something.

Or you could imagine it as this: your animal brain has evolved to notice patterns. Seeing coincidences like this is akin to seeing faces in the stars. The challenge of evolved being is to override those impulses when they're not logically sound.

Re: Meta outage

#287

Anyone have a good guesstimate of how much money is "lost" when Youtube/Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp (more?) are down each minute?

Naively, divide ad revenue by time to get a dollars-per-time. But thats naive because ad serving isn’t totally sold out so they can make up for it by increasing the density of ads in the next time window. If the outage is short, then the impact is small. But some markets are totally sold out and there’s no making up for lost impressions.

> they can make up for it by increasing the density of ads in the next time window

no need to do that, for google search, people will come back later to make the search

Re: Meta outage

#289

What are the chances this is GPT-5 that has escaped and gone rogue? Jest aside, i wonder when/if stuff like that will actually happen.

My shadow is extremely good at mimicking my every move, but I don’t live in fear that it will make the jump to the third dimension, kill me, and assume my identity. Should I?!

Re: Meta outage

#290

Discord is having issues too! https://discordstatus.com/

Could this be related to Google's log in page change? Seemed cosmetic only, but funny timing that Google's page update happens the same time all these log in issues pop up.
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