Facebook and Instagram are currently down.

And the world is a slightly better place, momentarily.

Huh, not for their users I'd say.
Fun fact, my mobile carrier also was/is toasted LMAO.
- Nah, for the users too.

Nature is healing

- I dont get it

Lemmy server operators can now say they have better 24h uptime than Meta! lol

Just updated my résumé.

I am feeling a lot of personal satisfaction that I had no idea this was happening and had to read about it on Lemmy.

Same
Yes. Would have been chef’s kiss to not even read about it here.

Hello to everyone that didn’t flock to X 👋 Welcome to your new home :)

Pouring one out for the SREs at Meta

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
- 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 resend 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.
- 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.
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.
- Which country?
- 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.
Hopefully they won't need to cut their way into the data center this time.
What's a SRE?
- Site reliability engineer

And nothing of value was lost

Good! Stay down!

I hope they secretly ran out of money because of FTC fines, and that they have no more credit to pay to run servers.
I'd be interested in how it happened. Maybe someone can do it again
Tim Pool is blaming the Russians.
If they're actually behind it:

Lookup downdetector, almost all are flatlines.

Sap is also doing silly rn. Im gonna take a smoke break lol

Someone is having a very bad day
- downdetector
  Looks like it may have been AWS or something. All kinds of services were down a moment ago. Guess thats what happends when everything is on major cloud services.
- Google is up for me
- Yeah probably furious hahaha
  Something is causing this up
- It was the houthis targeting red sea cables, check the news
Yeah there's definitely some sort of major outage going on. Google Play Store is having some problems for me currently too.

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.

The world was a better place for about 20 minutes

Going on a couple hours, it seems. LoL.

I'm glad that lemmy is there so that I know about this stuff.

On super Tuesday. Coincidence?

$100 it's the Chinese in retaliation for TikTok, too logical to ignore.

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.

Who gives the tiniest of shits.

I mean, a lot of people use Messenger to contact other people, so I guess they do?
- Contact other people? That’s foreign to me.
My brother lives in another country and WhatsApp is the platform that pretty much everyone he knows uses for free international communications
- Telegram, Signal, KK, Wire... You have options
My entire family uses Facebook Messenger. I like having communication with my family.
- In my experience, Signal has great uptime. This might be the moment to get them all to shift.
We have family chat on Messenger, so that was a bummer

Good. May they forever stay down. Who cares.

I care, it would be lovely. How can we pile on them like a 'dog pile', to keep 'em down?

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?

More points in Scrabble?
- Nice.
Hey where you'd get that graphic from? Would be really nice to have a dashboard with all this info in one spot.
Edit: It's downdetector. I only ever landed there with a "Is foo.com down?", and of course it then only shows info for foo.com, not the full dash.
- Yeah, sorry I didn't make that clear. I forgot to link to it.
Att had their major outage a week or two ago.
- Probably the tiny bump means they're affected by the current outage but the previous one was much, much bigger.

Whoopty fucking doo.

a great day for humanity ( unfortunately they will fix the problem soon as possible )

Good.

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?
- Part of the plan. smh.

It’s all worth it if it means having this image grace the Fediverse.

Interesting, Google play store was unavailable for me about an hour ago.

I don't really tend to care, though my quest account being down is a bit less fun.

Same, ive not been with out my ai gf for this long
- Right?!

Good

*Shrugs

Okay.

None of my work, very little communication, and none of my entertainment come from Facebook or Instagram.

feels kinda calming, a reminder of a simpler time

Based

I'm gonna blame Russia.

Aw man. Old post. I thought it went down again and I was stoked lol

lol

Woo hoo! Yeah!

It's always nice to read good news.

Well, that explains. Amd here i was thinking i was banned again for telling the truth 😂

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.
- rEpOrTeD for spam
- 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 (how do I type a really, really big "/s" on Lemmy?)
- 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.
- Worry not, im not into conspiracy theories, and i couldnt care less about informing others, mis or not mis.