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Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage

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Re: Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage

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Post by chewz »

florianmari wrote: post #25

It's not only Facebook, a lot of services, Deezer, some operators in France... https://downdetector.fr/

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Re: Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage

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Post by foobarian »

rattray wrote: post #48

"But senators, we can't break up these three unrelated services because they all use the same messaging infrastructure!"

"Just like many independent companies use the same computing infrastructure (AWS) the three unrelated services can be spun off and pay FB Infra to use the messaging platform!"

Re: Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage

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Post by Grazester »

breckenedge wrote: post #69
the-dude wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC this is exactly what MS claimed about bundling IE : it was tied into the kernel.

Yes that was a defense. Explorer.exe and IE were intimately tied together. Remember “active desktop”? You could make your Windows desktop background a web page. Crazy times...

And I loved it!

Re: Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage

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Post by eecks »

ForHackernews wrote: post #61
bitcharmer wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? Is messenger your only option? I personally don't use Messenger but there's still WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc.

> there's still WhatsApp, Literally in the headline. (unless it's been edited)

It was edited.

Re: Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage

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Post by dbspin »

LeonM wrote: post #15
fowlie wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many people can you reach with WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Messenger? How many people can you reach with SMS? Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2365

In Europe, Whatsapp is ubiquitous. FB Messenger and iMessage are pretty rare here. Edit: looks like I was wrong. I'm in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands and our neighbouring countries, Whatsapp is ubiquitous, so I presumed the rest of Europe was the same. I guess this proves that assumption is the mother of all failures.

Ireland here - Whatsapp is ubiquitous, even amongst the elderly. Presumably because iPhones are still in the minority, so iMessage hasn't taken over.

Re: Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp Outage

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Post by skyyler »

jbverschoor wrote: post #78
mkl95 wrote: post #65

Whatsapp is extremely dominant in my country, but I keep encouraging friends and acquaintances to install Telegram. As far as I know, there won't be anything preventing FB from geoblocking European users when the company eventually gets in some serious trouble, like it just did in the US.

Why telegram and not signal?

They're totally different apps! Signal's focus is 1-to-1 encrypted chats. Telegram's focus is broadcasting messages and group chats. One of them is a secure messenger, the other is a social media network on top of a messaging app.

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Post by not_knuth »

Steltek wrote: post #89
breckenedge wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes that was a defense. Explorer.exe and IE were intimately tied together. Remember “active desktop”? You could make your Windows desktop background a web page. Crazy times...

I wouldn't mind that, actually. I could create my own dashboard/background.

Well as always, that can easily be done on Linux. There is even a widget on KDE that lets you do precisely that.
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