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Post by mandmandam »

FormerBandmate wrote: post #65
bamboozled wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

>That’s it.

It really, really isn't all they're doing. Not by the longest of shots.

Here is one example: https://indica.medium.com/facebook-is-evil-and-i-quit-215105...

There are thousands of others. Every week on here there's a new story about some new uncovered act of heinous evil from the Zuck and his buds. It's a wonder you haven't seen them.

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#102

Post by runawaybottle »

FormerBandmate wrote: post #65
bamboozled wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yes people said the same thing about television and by and large most people think Television had some pretty bad side effects. A dumber society, all kinds of depression began manifesting in people who were sold an image of ‘reality’ via ads/unrealistic shows, the gutting of ‘journalism’ into 24-hour news, none of that stuff was wrong.

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#103

Post by fleddr »

boplicity wrote: post #22

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'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.

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#104

Post by systemvoltage »

boplicity wrote: post #22

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.

I feel like we're singling out FB here. Can we bundle Twitter and Tiktok with it? May be Youtube comments? The danger of course is that we have all piled up on a scape goat and the rest of the social media companies will continue to enjoy great PR. Tiktok continues to be HN's darling.

Edit: Downvotes really? What for?

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#105

Post by xwdv »

neemsio wrote: post #90
boplicity wrote: post #22

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.

I saw some teenagers sitting on a field and talking instead of on their phones this afternoon. Was a pleasant surprise

Nature was healing.

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#106

Post by mandmandam »

tekromancr wrote: post #58
itslennysfault wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably Facebook trackers. I noticed a lot of apps (including my own) having major slowness on initial load while they were down. My assumption is it was their tracking code timing out.

But HN doesn't have any facebook trackers

I wonder how sure we can be of that.

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#107

Post by this_user »

grzracz wrote: post #5

Can't wait for the post mortem technical post

Allegedly, this was a BGP update gone wrong that locked out their remote access. And the people with physical access didn't have the necessary privileges to fix the issue.

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#108

Post by spelunker »

GrifMD wrote: post #36

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.

You should see the current top comment!

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#109

Post by TrevorJ »

fleddr wrote: post #103
boplicity wrote: post #22

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'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.

>I should add that I'm not from the US.

That's probably a big part of it.

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#110

Post by jamiequint »

jimsimmons wrote: post #98
wly_cdgr wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook is very far from perfect, but it brings a lot of good to the world as well. I met my partner of almost five years thanks to Facebook's friend recommendation algorithms. I had never met them outside of Facebook and we didn't have any friends in common outside Facebook either. In fact, when we met, we lived on opposite coasts. I will always be grateful to Zuck & Co. for that, and for the hundreds of other frie…

Proof by anecdote

Did you get confused and think "There is so much hate, arguments, misinformation, angy, and harmful messaging on FB platforms." was data?
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