Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Threads Are All Down (theverge.com) 97
Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are all experiencing issues. From a report: The three Meta-owned platforms aren't working for many users, with the widespread outage seeming to start around 10AM ET. Some users are experiencing issues logging in to their Meta Quest headsets, too. Facebook is logging users out of their accounts, leaving them unable to get back in. Meanwhile, over on Instagram, some users, including several of us at The Verge, can't refresh their feeds. YouTube is down, too.
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Well, there are a lot of people who *do* value it, even if you do not.
How else should people stay in touch with older family members and IRL, though distant, friends? Telephone? Email, which they never set up on their new phone?
Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Insightful)
You do realize for the most part...social media is still relatively a VERY new occurrence.
Do it the old fashioned way....phone call. Snail mail still works great (and it is nice to actually get a real hand signed card or letter).
I've never had any social media accounts....yet I have had NO problem keeping in touch (often daily) with my numerous friends and relatives across the nation.
And fortunately, I have a lot of my friends close enough to where we actually get together in meatspace for real interactions in person.
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The "I don't even own a TV" crowd is very much alive, I see.
BTW, Slashdot is Social media, and you do have an account here.
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In a BBS / IRC / online forum kind of way, yes. But, in a Geocities / FB / personal page connecting with friends [socially] kind of way, you are incorrect. And, that's the "social media" the GP was most likely referring to.
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I would hardly call Slashdot "social media".
It's nothing like the classics: FB, TikTok, Instagram, etc.....
Maybe almost a bulletin board or something, but not much more than that.
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Not to mention another key difference - all those other social media platforms support Unicode!
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BTW, Slashdot is antisocial media, and you do have an account here.
FTFY. HTH.
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Slashdot is a church gathering compared to most social media avenues out there.
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The problem is with what the sociopaths did to their platforms in order to make them the money-printing machines they have become -- and the resulting negative consequences to individuals and societies that they knew those changes would illicit but just didn't care 'cause greed.
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>>that they knew those changes
>>would illicit but just didn't care
>>'cause greed.
You meant 'elicit'.
The life of the grammar cop is a thankless one.
Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
Do it the old fashioned way...
By turning down the appropriate corner of my calling card when I leave it with the servant?
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Sure i have a time delayed question for my wife. Will take 15 seconds to answer and since she is a nurse can take anywhere from 30 seconds to 3 hours to respond.
Because of medical building SMS doesnt work inside. To much equipment, to thick walls. WIFI however covers the place. So name one service that works realiably over wifi that everyone has equal access too. And can get a login for
Imessage is strictly apple so somewhat
Facebook messenger sucks but is everywhere
Whataap is good for some countries. B
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Well, lessee.....if this is urgent or an emergency, does the hospital not have phone where you can call her?
Otherwise...you can wait...just like people have since time started.
The tried and true method I mentioned has worked in modern times, readily since the late 80's and back.
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Sure you can wait and you can forget. Or get distracted or take another phone call.
How many kids have been left at school due to a missed phone call between parents? How many thousands per day ?
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And yet the world keeps turning. Funny how we don't hear about 1000s of abductions a DAY because of missed phone calls.
You are the sort of person that causes me to want the Internet to go down for a week. Just to watch everyone freak out because, omg how do we live!!!
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Because of medical building SMS doesnt work inside. To much equipment, to thick walls. WIFI however covers the place. So name one service that works realiably over wifi that everyone has equal access too.
What cell carrier do you use which doesn't provide a wifi-to-cellular gateway?
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You do realize for the most part...social media is still relatively a VERY new occurrence.
Do it the old fashioned way....phone call. Snail mail still works great (and it is nice to actually get a real hand signed card or letter).
I appreciate the world worked in the old days too, but you also need to reflect on the fact that the world itself has changed. As someone who moved to another country social media is still the best way of staying in touch with friends and family.
Mind you I moved back in the old days as well. It's just nicer to see updates from family and friends on a nearly daily basis than sending one business card a week, or keeping our phone calls to no more than 30min a month due to the high cost of international callin
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Well, there are a lot of people who *do* value it, even if you do not.
How else should people stay in touch with older family members and IRL, though distant, friends? Telephone? Email, which they never set up on their new phone?
Maybe the shouldn't - and that's the point. How valuable are these people anyway?
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Well, there are a lot of people who *do* value it, even if you do not.
How else should people stay in touch with older family members and IRL, though distant, friends? Telephone? Email, which they never set up on their new phone?
Quite a false equivalence you create there.
With all the content these social media sites are now locking up behind "login" accounts, Granny might not have email, but she figured out how to setup a "login" account? Srsly Bro?
And so much email nowadays uses a web frontend so it's about as complicated to setup & use as a "login" account at FB, IG, or whatever.
FYI - Most oldtimers, my own parents included, could figure out how to use a phone, even a cell phone, and most oldtimers simply prefer to chat on th
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Yeah... my senior parents do just fine creating Internet accounts, sending emails and MMS. Maybe you mean the REALLY old people in their 90s?
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Well, there are a lot of people who *do* value it, even if you do not.
How else should people stay in touch with older family members and IRL, though distant, friends? Telephone? Email, which they never set up on their new phone?
I use Signal for that. Private, secure and ad-free messaging I have converted all of my relatives over to it (though almost all of them still have Whatsapp installed for the random hobbygroup). Never had a Facebook, Youtube or Instagram account myself. My parents do not have those either.
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How else should people stay in touch with older family members and IRL, though distant, friends? Telephone? Email, which they never set up on their new phone?
Yes. Telephone and email. Just like we have for 100+ years (phone) and 25+ years (email). Web-based email has been around since the 1990s. Still works, and no software to set up, unless you want IMAP or something.
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And nothing of value was lost.
^ ^ THIS ^ ^
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Except I know enough music groups, artists, community event programmers, support groups and the ilk that reach out to their community with FB groups, and FB events. It is one of the more prevelent ways to get their information out. Don't get me wrong I don't care if it is down for me. But to say nothing of value was lost is over simplification from your world view point.
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They like to kid themselves that they're "tech savvy."
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It has nothing to do with being tech savvy. If you think that you would not make a good business person. These are artists, performers, musicians and other that are doing business to stay in business. They do not use Facebook because it is easy. They use it to reach the people to earn a living or in the case of non-profits to get a turn out to their events.
I do not enjoy having to use Facebook. But I had some items for sale. Put them up on various sites, craigslist etc... at the urge of my spouse I gave in and put on FB marketplace and finally starting getting traction and made sales. The other platforms don't offer what FB does which is "You were looking at X, these may be interesting to you"... in their feeds.
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LOL, touchy! And yes, that is exactly what I'm saying. They do use it because it's easy, far too easy. They are clueless and subservient to their beloved push "tech."
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Maybe it's because I changed the cable routing between some switches and servers at work?
If that's the real cause then it would really be a combination of amusement and a mission critical security breach.
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Just rebooting things to prepare for the next coordinated dissident purge or psyop.
Also... (Score:3)
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More like sitting on Twitter refreshing for updates from Meta accounts posting status updates.
This is a fucked up timeline.
Zombies. (Score:2)
>> employees are now sitting at Meta login screens and repeating the login process over and over and over and ...
That are not employees. Those are zombies.
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In other news....social discourse in person seems to be happening, and civility has started breaking out sporadically.
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Last time this happened, right before the 'rona if my memory serves me right, the local coffee shop I frequent was so packed, the owner got tables and chairs out of his own home to get everyone served.
Never have I seen so many groups of friends having a good time since probably 2007.
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I think you overestimate the impact on actually working people. Those are old people platforms. You're on Slashdot, so you may have a skewed perspective.
Who will teach me to hate now?? (Score:1)
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Never not fear, citizen! The Angry People's Networks are still available via your television, web browser, or smartphone app!
You need never fear not being afraid. The Angry People's Networks will continue to foster divisiveness and hatred for anyone who is not exactly like us!
Re: Who will teach me to hate now?? (Score:2)
Who teaches you to hate the Left and other people with empathy?
World ended..news at 10 (Score:1)
https://theuselessweb.site/noo... [theuselessweb.site]
Is there hope....? (Score:2)
The world was a WHOLE lot more civil, and a nicer place to live in before social media.
Re:Is there hope....? (Score:5, Informative)
World War II suggests that you're full of shit.
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Countries/nations will always have differences between them...I'm talking more about intra-country relationships. The US specifically.
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Countries/nations will always have differences between them...I'm talking more about intra-country relationships. The US specifically.
Still not true. Read some history. It was always as bad, worse in fact.
There was just no means to plaster the details in front of your face in real-time so people were mainly ignorant of how bad it was, and have nothing to compare today against to know how much better it has gotten in comparison.
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> World War II suggests that you're full of shit.
Why not mention Caesar's siege of the Gauls?
Because WWII ended on August 29, 1997?
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How recent of an example do you need? USA was attacking countries that didn't attack it in the 1990s and since with lies and false pretense. Currently arming and supplying a genocide too.
Was Zuck working AI? (Score:2)
Maybe an AI "woke up", took a look at Facebook, and went, "Ah, no." *SMACK*
It's as if millions cried out... (Score:3)
...and were then suddenly silenced.
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It is as if millions wanted to cry out... but they had not idea how to do that without these sites.
They did the world a favor (Score:2)
Re: They did the world a favor (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah. This trash pit should be enough for anybody.
Leave the World Behind (Score:2)
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Oh God. (Score:2)
What will I do?? My life is over :(((
Uh, maybe go outside?
Do other things (Score:2)
This would be a good opportunity for all those with their faces buried in that crap to raise their heads and look at the world around them for a change.
For all who say... (Score:5, Interesting)
...that nothing of value was lost, I have a different perspective
While I agree that for many, facebook is time-wasting fluff, many of us use it for business
I make machines for glasswork and use facebook to keep in contact with the glassworking community
I show my products and projects and see what glassworkers are making
I wish there was another alternative that focused on connecting people who share a common interest, without pushing stoopid pop culture and targeted ads, but at the moment, facebook is the only tool I have
And yes, I have looked at alternatives like Mastadon. They are ghost towns, with almost no glassworkers
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Yep. I despise Facebook, but I perform standup comedy and the only way to get gigs is to be on Facebook. I also have a number of casual contacts who don't know my phone number or email address, but who communicate with me on Messenger. It's very convenient.
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I'm in a similar boat, there's certain community groups that just really a. only work with as much reach as possible, and b. have settled on FB or similar places because that's what was available that had the kind of reach needed. In my case it's groups related to dual citizenship, where the only two places I've found with enough membership to provide useful support groups for it have been Reddit and Meta (specifically in my case Instagram surprisingly).
I'd love if those communities would migrate to Lemmy o
Re: For all who say... (Score:1)
People use forums for this kind of things since the birth of internet.
You get all the interaction without baggage of Facebook.
Usually when there is a thriving community there will be someone with enough knowledge to find a webhosting company and set up something like phpBB or vBulletin. Cost for hosting it these days isnâ(TM)t high either.
Network effect (was Re: For all who say...) (Score:2)
That's fine, but because of the network effect, comedy shows are announced on Facebook and requests for spots are made on Facebook. If you set up your own forum... nobody will announce calls for spots there, because why would they? Everyone's on Facebook.
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I kinda miss the days when there were forums/message boards dedicated to topics/hobbies/etc..
Felt like in those days we made genuine connections, doesn't seem the same on 'Facebook Groups' for some reason.
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Remember the begining of the Web? When people were not lazy and worked hard to learn how to set up a forum or a blog, so that people would join and create communities on platforms they owned?
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What is your experience with independent forums? I found http://www.talkglass.com/forum... [talkglass.com] https://www.glassmessages.com/... [glassmessages.com]
For all who defend.. (Score:2)
Usenet groups. Blogs. Forums. D-lists. Traditional websites. Yes, I can remember many ways that we successfully sold products and services and built entire communities online before social media came along.
Ironic we won’t even consider that as a viable option anymore, while calling that “progress”.
Ah, now it makes sense (Score:2)
Productivity was WAY up the past few hours.
Slashdot effect (Score:2)
LOL (Score:2)
Back in the early 1990s, me and fellow nerd friends in college used to hang out on an IRC server called Hobbes. It was addictive, but it meant failing classes and not having a girlfriend. The thing to do when you were bored or drunk was to fuck with the server (spam it with messages, take over channels, find vulnerabilities, etc.). Well one day, one of us went too far and got everyone in our college domain banned from the server. We were pissed --there were other IRC servers and we even tried to put our ow
Going to be... (Score:2)
...a lot of Thanksgiving babies this year...
Oops (Score:1)
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Non Sequitur (Score:2)
There was a large-scale power outage in Folsom CA at the same time as the FB (and related services) outage. Total coincidence, I know, but 10K power customers...10K FB etc users...humans see patterns even if there aren't any.
That said, didn't these FB users who were locked out of their accounts have their passwords written down somewhere, so they could log back in? Or is FB connection required for them to log in to their phone or computer (that would be strange)? I thought only MS Google and Apple did that?
Not X (formally Twitter and should still b) (Score:1)
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It's Meta/Instagram's version of twitter. Came out like a year ago
Didn't notice (Score:2)
What's all the fuss about?
Timing was off (Score:1)
The Biden People (Score:1)
I guess the Biden people needed to make sure the 'pro-Palestine-terror' wing of the party could not get the message out to vote against him in Super Tuesday primaries and embarrass this administration even more.
Just in Time for Super Tuesday (Score:1)
Conspiracy or Enshittification? (Score:1)
At the risk of sounding extreme, has anyone else noticed that this is the third catastrophe this week. AT&T went down hard on Feb. 28. And, according to IsTheServiceDown.com, my Google fiber outage from about 4:00 AM to 5:30 AM on March 2 appeared to be part of a nationwide outage.
So have quasi-nation state hackers gained full control, or is it the same old, boring enshittification?
See Molly Tuttle make 28" UTUBE newshiny (Score:1)
No way is UTUBE down, but for squintsville squeeze suffering heart-attacks from APPLEs rout anything is possible.
...and for a brief spell... (Score:2)
...the world was a better place...
Sadly, it could not last forever...