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Facebook and Instagram are currently down. (i.postimg.cc)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The country where all of those services are maintained and hosted in... Just colloquial shorthand, not trying to be exclusionary.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Ok thanks for the clarification!

[–] merc 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The country where all of those services are maintained and hosted in…

For Meta, Google, etc. that's a number of countries all over the world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's fair. Yall, I was really not trying to be shitty. It was just shorthand I used, thinking of their HQs. No ill intent intended and I apologize for any harm it caused.