Nature is healing
Facebook and Instagram are currently down.
Submitted 8 months ago by shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
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Rentlar@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Lemmy server operators can now say they have better 24h uptime than Meta! lol
_dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 8 months ago
Just updated my résumé.
modifier@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I am feeling a lot of personal satisfaction that I had no idea this was happening and has to read about it on Lemmy.
zzx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Same
scarabic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes. Would have been chef’s kiss to not even read about it here.
shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Hello to everyone that didn’t flock to X 👋 Welcome to your new home :)
cbarrick@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Pouring one out for the SREs at Meta
kinther@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Someone is having a really bad day today. I wonder if your phone dies when you get a certain number of pages or push notifications
Alk@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fun story. I had a flip phone years ago and you could have multiple recipients to a single text. And if the text was multiple pages, it would split into several texts. And you could resent already sent texts.
So one time I put in my girlfriend’s phone number in all 20 recipient slots. I then filled the text to the max size, though I don’t remember how many it split into. I then resent it over and over. This all took like 2 or 3 minutes.
Her phone was sending notifications over and over for the entire rest of the day. I’d guess at least 8 hours, probably more.
maynarkh@feddit.nl 8 months ago
No but it’s unusable. I had a weird bug on one of my phones that sent an SMS over as fast as it could as long as the phone was on. I wrote the initial SMS, the contents were something like “hey, wanna hang?”, and the poor guy on the other side was blasted for several hours of literally constant notifications.
Luckily my plan at the time had unlimited free SMS.
alilbee@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Looking at the downmeter shot someone posted above, it’s half the SREs in the country. Not sure what the root cause will be, but damn that’s a lot of money down the tubes. I would not want to be the person who cost Meta and Google their precious thirty 9’s of availability lol.
merc@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It’s likely there’s a root cause, like a fiber cut or some other major infrastructure issue. But, Down Detector doesn’t really put a scale on their graphics, so it could be that it’s a huge issue at Meta and a minor issue that’s just noticeable for everyone else. In that case, Meta could be the root cause.
If everyone is mailing themselves their passwords, shutting their phones on and off, restarting their browsers, etc. because Meta wasn’t working, it could have knock-on effects for everyone else. Could also be that because Meta is part of the major ad duopoly, the issue affected their ad system, which affected everyone interacting with a Meta ad, which is basically everyone.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 8 months ago
Hopefully they won't need to cut their way into the data center this time.
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 8 months ago
And nothing of value was lost
SecretSauces@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Good! Stay down!
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 8 months ago
I hope they secretly ran out of money because of FTC fines, and that they have no more credit to pay to run servers.
r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru 8 months ago
Quadhammer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’d be interested in how it happened. Maybe someone can do it again
Holzkohlen@feddit.de 8 months ago
Pathetic. My single podman container has perfect uptime from when I start it manually with podman desktop to when I shut down my PC. I also allow only the highest security standard, it being not accessible outside of my network and all that. I am clearly a cyber security expert.
hector@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Ahaha it’s funny because I initially read that as serious comment X)
LoremIpsumGenerator@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Lookup downdetector, almost all are flatlines.
adam@doomscroll.n8e.dev 8 months ago
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 8 months ago
downdetector
Looks like it may have been AWS or something. All kinds of services were down a moment ago.
LoremIpsumGenerator@lemmy.world 8 months ago
soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
It was the houthis targeting red sea cables, check the news
LostXOR@fedia.io 8 months ago
Yeah there's definitely some sort of major outage going on. Google Play Store is having some problems for me currently too.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Who gives the tiniest of shits.
evident5051@lemm.ee [bot] 8 months ago
I mean, a lot of people use Messenger to contact other people, so I guess they do?
magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 8 months ago
Contact other people? That’s foreign to me.
art@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My entire family uses Facebook Messenger. I like having communication with my family.
Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 8 months ago
In my experience, Signal has great uptime. This might be the moment to get them all to shift.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 months ago
We have family chat on Messenger, so that was a bummer
neatchee@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My brother lives in another country and WhatsApp is the platform that pretty much everyone he knows uses for free international communications
just_another_person@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Telegram, Signal, KK, Wire… You have options
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
The world was a better place for about 20 minutes
Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 8 months ago
Going on a couple hours, it seems. LoL.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m glad that lemmy is there so that I know about this stuff.
anubis119@lemmy.world 8 months ago
On super Tuesday. Coincidence?
pdxfed@lemmy.world 8 months ago
$100 it’s the Chinese in retaliation for TikTok, too logical to ignore.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 8 months ago
You know it is big news when it shows up in the active feed of Lemmy 😅
Why it didn’t appear in the wholesome news community though.
snek@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Good. May they forever stay down. Who cares.
Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 8 months ago
It care, it would be lovely. How can we pile on them like a 'dog pile', to keep 'em down?
merc@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
They seem to be back up. But, what do Meta, Google, Discord, Amazon, Zoom and Verizon have in common, but not AT&T, Steam, Uber Eats, SAP, etc?
Down Detector shows a spike of trouble for many, but not all services all at the same time.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
More points in Scrabble?
merc@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Nice.
_dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 8 months ago
Hey where you’d get that graphic from? Would be really nice to have a dashboard with all this info in one spot.
merc@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Yeah, sorry I didn’t make that clear. I forgot to link to it.
Alenalda@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Att had their major outage a week or two ago.
merc@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Probably the tiny bump means they’re affected by the current outage but the previous one was much, much bigger.
scarabic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Whoopty fucking doo.
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
a great day for humanity ( unfortunately they will fix the problem soon as possible )
TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Good.
Synther@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
It’ll be back up, it always will because family “has” to use it because it’s the only “easy to use” social media platform they’ve knew for a decade. TBF, it’s pretty shit in terms of the ui and I can’t navigate through the damn settings.
victorz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Can confirm, navigating Facebook settings is a nightmare. Do they do it on purpose, you think? They don’t want people turning shit off, and stuff?
Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run 8 months ago
Part of the plan. smh.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t really tend to care, though my quest account being down is a bit less fun.
squid_slime@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Same, ive not been with out my ai gf for this long
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Right?!
johannes@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl 8 months ago
Well, that explains. Amd here i was thinking i was banned again for telling the truth 😂
glimse@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I couldn’t possibly know what you’ve posted but I’ve found that anyone worried about getting banned for “telling the truth” is actually posting unsubstantiated conspiracy theories and/or misinformation lol
Hopefully that’s not what you mean.
shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 8 months ago
rEpOrTeD for spam
neatchee@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But Linux IS the superior desktop OS if you just give it a try! That’s not a conspiracy or misinformation, just the truth!!! But they don’t want you to know that
johannes@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl 8 months ago
Worry not, im not into conspiracy theories, and i couldnt care less about informing others, mis or not mis.
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 8 months ago
At the beginning of Covid, reasonable people that were trying to tell people that the vaccines aren't 100% effective and should probably take other precautions on top were getting banned for "vaccine misinformation" and were being lumped in with the Covidiots. It was a trigger-happy moment for social media that was trying to brute-force moderation on keywords alone without looking at context.
Not saying that's what happened to this person, but it did happen.
SteveKLord@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
It’s all worth it if it means having this image grace the Fediverse.
d00ery@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Interesting, Google play store was unavailable for me about an hour ago.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Good
Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 8 months ago
*Shrugs
Okay.
None of my work, very little communication, and none of my entertainment come from Facebook or Instagram.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m gonna blame Russia.
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
when facebook and instagram are down, that also means whatsapp is down and betterhelp is down.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Aw man. Old post. I thought it went down again and I was stoked lol
MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 8 months ago
And the world is a slightly better place, momentarily.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Huh, not for their users I’d say.
Fun fact, my mobile carrier also was/is toasted LMAO.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Nah, for the users too.