Facebook-owned sites were down • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by m-chrzan » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:00 PM UTC

finolex1 wrote: post #57

RedShift1 wrote: post #7

Nothing of value was lost

I get that this in jest, but a lot of people rely on Whatsapp and FB Messenger for messaging.

A lot of people, out of habit, rely on high fructose corn syrup for calories.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by drcongo » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:01 PM UTC

pc86 wrote: post #61

TremendousJudge wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WhatsApp is pretty important infrastructure for most of the world

For some egregiously loose definitions of "infrastructure," maybe .

And "important"

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by kaustubhvp » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:02 PM UTC

it is always DNS!

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by bubblehack3r » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:02 PM UTC

Their stock is down 5% too. Everything is down for them today ;)

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by mrstumpy » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:02 PM UTC

drcongo wrote: post #66

Let's hope it's permanent.

You win for best comment

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by subsaharancoder » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:02 PM UTC

RedShift1 wrote: post #7

Nothing of value was lost

A lot of people, many of them home based businesses, also rely on FB Marketplace as a primary source of income.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by madeofpalk » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:02 PM UTC

RedShift1 wrote: post #7

Nothing of value was lost

I can't message my friends on whatsapp :(

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:02 PM UTC

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Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by WallyFunk » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:02 PM UTC

tut-urut-utut wrote: post #18

Facebook down, WhatsApp down, but Signal still works. Time for a change? EDIT: Yes, Signal is not federated, but that's what people are at least ready to consider as a WhatsApp alternative. I also created Matrix / Element account, and had 0 contacts using it already.

> Signal still works

https://old.reddit.com/r/thehatedone/comments/f160jh/is_sign...

Signal is still centralized and uses AWS. So if AWS was to go down, it would affect not just Signal but vast swathes of the Internets.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by emptysea » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:02 PM UTC

Interesting, even some open source sites like: https://fbinfer.com are down

but https://glean.software and https://reactjs.org aren't