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Re: X.com Is Down

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Post by underseacables » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 5:34 PM UTC

kalupa wrote: post #29

__rito__ wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is Bluesky good enough and dense enough if I block all political keywords? X is good enough for me after muting all political keywords. There was a link recently to a site that lists all top links on Bluesky and overwhelmingly all were about US politics.

It has great support for blocking yes. In fact, there are curated and/or crowdsourced block lists that one can subscribe to so you don’t have to spend as much time doing it yourself. I am sure there’s one that’s suitable for your needs but I don’t have any to recommend

..you can do that?! I've been dreaming of the ability to block certain words and phrases from Twitter. Blue sky is too chaotic for me… I'm OK sticking with Twitter so long as I can block words and phrases.

Re: X.com Is Down

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Post by underseacables » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 5:35 PM UTC

josefritzishere wrote: post #5

Dark Storm has taken credit... at least that's what Newsweek says. https://www.newsweek.com/x-twitter-outage-dark-storm-live-up...

Wow. They really did a number. Really destroyed everything. It took X like 30 minutes! to restore function.

Re: X.com Is Down

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Post by ta1243 » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 6:04 PM UTC

a12k wrote: post #23

ta1243 wrote: post #12

And nothing of value was lost

Well where else am I supposed to socialize with fellow cybertruck owners?

Fire station?

Re: X.com Is Down

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Post by postepowanieadm » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 6:22 PM UTC

lokimedes wrote: post #16

Government infrastructure under attack, Musk is demanding nuclear retaliation as we speak. (Misinformation disclaimer :: Joke)

I'm not sure if you are joking or serious. Interesting times.

Re: X.com Is Down

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Post by theultdev » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 7:11 PM UTC

resize2996 wrote: post #30

theultdev wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

correct. because twitter 1.0 went down constantly. and staff has been axed for awhile. ddos happens, having a large staff isn't really relevant.

quality is relevant

elaborate.

Re: X.com Is Down

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Post by mehphp » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 7:49 PM UTC

xkbarkar wrote: post #22

PKop wrote: post #3

"The site has been unreachable for more than 80 days."

Why are you downvoted? It is what the site says. What the hell has happened to HN? Its not even a controversial comment. Da hell?

I sense that change too. Comments are starting to feel too much like Reddit unfortunately.

Re: X.com Is Down

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Post by kawfey » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 7:59 PM UTC

Kkoala wrote: post #15

Good time to consider and try out alternatives! Such as Bluesky

or mastodon. or threads. or ... I hate that the short-text social media world got so fragmented. Twitter was the one place i could go to say hi to my neighbors, complain to a company and get recompense, grow my hobbies with friends, ask almost any restaurant "are you open on $holiday?" and just watch the whole world breathe.

Re: X.com Is Down

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Post by k2_dev » Mon, Mar 10, 2025, 8:00 PM UTC

Does anyone know yet, if this was really a cyberattack? And if so, how the hackers were able to pull this off? Was it a DDOS-Attack?

Re: X.com Is Down

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Post by sebazzz » Tue, Mar 11, 2025, 3:48 AM UTC

janmo wrote: post #9

ohgr wrote: post #8

What microservice did Musk delete this time?

Probably fired the DDOS protection team

He will probably get fined by not reaching his fake news quota.

Re: X.com Is Down

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Post by me_me_me » Wed, Mar 12, 2025, 3:56 PM UTC

ta1243 wrote: post #12

And nothing of value was lost

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