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?
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.
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.
It’s all worth it if it means having this image grace the Fediverse.
when facebook and instagram are down, that also means whatsapp is down and betterhelp is down.
They’re all hosted on the same servers, so when one drops, they all drop and when one gets hacked, they all get hacked.
Based
lol
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.
I don’t actively browse or use facebook
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.
Interesting, Google play store was unavailable for me about an hour ago.
Good
*Shrugs
Okay.
None of my work, very little communication, and none of my entertainment come from Facebook or Instagram.
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.
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?)
rEpOrTeD for spam
Who gives the tiniest of shits.
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
Ahhh yes, let me just get all of my brothers’ business’ account’s followers to switch to telegram. I’m sure they’ll all be willing…
“Just use something else, duh!” is ignorant. Not everyone uses social media to just post memes and argue with strangers. Some people use it for making money, or for access to support resources, or for a specific community that is important to their well-being.
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.
Based on your recent activity, you might be interested in: !introvert@lemmy.world
Do they?
Maybe not if you’re just another person. But maybe family and such.
Oh no it’s him, the Algorithm
Your account has been temporarily deactivated for review.
We have family chat on Messenger, so that was a bummer
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.
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.
Especially for the users.
Lookup downdetector, almost all are flatlines.
Sap is also doing silly rn. Im gonna take a smoke break lol
Yeah there’s definitely some sort of major outage going on. Google Play Store is having some problems for me currently too.
Someone is having a very bad day
Yeah probably furious hahaha
Something is causing this up
It was the houthis targeting red sea cables, check the news
I don’t think any major news sources confirm your theory.
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.
Infrastructure seems likely, but probably not AWS because it affected Google and Facebook so strongly. If it were AWS you’d see Amazon getting badly affected and AWS itself, followed by everyone who relies on AWS for infrastructure.
It was the houthis targeting red sea cables, check the news
Google have their own data centres (and cloud) so it may be something more in the connectivity area.
Maybe, I would expect redundancy. But ultimately I have no clue. I just remember the last time AWS went down. It seemed that a majority of the sites that I used daily were down all in one go.
Sometimes redundancy doesn’t help when it comes to network traffic routing. That system is based heavily on trust and an incorrect route being published can cause recursive loops and such that get propagated very quickly to everyone.
There was a case like this a few years back where a bad route got published by a small ISP, claiming they could handle traffic to a certain set of destinations, but then immediately trying to send that traffic back out again (because they couldn’t actually route to that destination), which bounced right back to them because of the bad route. It was propagated based on implicit trust and took down huge chunks of the Internet for a while
So could this be done maliciously? I’m just wondering about the Super Tuesday timing.
It affected the full 8 billion people in the world, not just the few hundred million on the US.
Yes, BGP Route Hijacking can be done maliciously although things like BGPSec can make it harder to pull off.
You’re talking about Border Gateway Protocol, BGP, route hijacking and it’s occasionally been a real headache over the years. Advertising routes used to be a more manual process so typos and incorrect entries, like what you’re talking about, we’re reasonably common. It was, and still can be, done maliciously too.
https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/tip/How-does-BGP-hijacking-work-and-what-are-the-risks
Yup! BGP is an absolute mess and it is kind of a disgrace that it’s still the lynchpin of the internet
Yeah, they definitely host an unhealthy amount of the internet.
Google is up for me
For me too, but noticeably slower than normal.
!amateur_radio@lemmy.radio took over and they’re bouncing the signal off the moon
Bandwidth issues, changed over to carrier pigeons (though now dealing with latency issues).
I’m not getting latency issues must be a problem with your setup
That’s my experience with all these services as well
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. May they forever stay down. Who cares.
It care, it would be lovely. How can we pile on them like a ‘dog pile’, to keep 'em down?