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  • X, the former Twitter, has experienced a worldwide outage as of 12PM on Monday CAT.
  • This is likely the first major outage of the company since Musk took ownership in 2022.
  • The outage seems to have only lasted for about half an hour.
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 33 minutes ago* (last edited 32 minutes ago)

In unrelated news, hate is reduced across the world.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 minutes ago* (last edited 21 minutes ago)

DDoS attacks are illegal, but what is the legal amount of times a person can call a website? I'm sure enough people doing just a few calls per second couldn't get a person into too much trouble. Has the law even defined the difference?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 minutes ago

It would be poetic if the cyber attacks would be coming from Ukrainian hackers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

Reddit was like this, even way before the enshittification.

It happened so often on Reddit, it wasn't even news.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 minutes ago
  • This is likely the first major outage of the company since Musk took ownership in 2022.

Didn't Twitter go down multiple times for similar periods of time not long after Musk fired everybody? Or am I just hallucinating wishful thinking.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

If we’re lucky it’s forever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 26 minutes ago

They're busy, collapse the data center support columns.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 28 minutes ago

Says it was only 30 minutes in the description. Kinds weird they're telling us about it and not including thst bit in the title.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

Who the fuck is still on that nazi shithole

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Even the porn creators and erotic artists have left.

When you've lost the porn it's game over man.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 minutes ago

Since you seem to know what platform have they moved to generally?

[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Remember kids, only nazis support nazis.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I was just talking to a friend who's very anti-nazi (at least, that's what he says), told him that by staying there, he's feeding the nazis. He says that he's the resistance working from within lol. People would tell themselves all kinds of stories for convenience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Ask him if he'd go to a nazi bar, and start a fist fight.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 46 minutes ago

I mean, there's no comparison. Punching Nazis is always cool, Twitter is just talking to them, which never is. You and fifty friends go on Twitter and dunk on Nazis all day and you're still just at a table talking with the enemy. Take fifty friends to a Nazi bar and throw punches, you've just improved the neighbourhood.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago
[–] ayyy 13 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

My government emergency alerts :(

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 hours ago

I actually emailed my local National Weather Service station awhile back asking if they’d post on Mastodon and even offered them a BlueSky invite and they wrote back saying only Twitter and Facebook were allowed and they’d be everywhere if it was approved by higher ups.

Someone made a BlueSky bot a few months ago for NWS notices and I’m pretty sure they covered every local one. I remember the person who made it asking people to request any missing stations. Not sure if there’s a Mastodon equivalent but you could use a bridge. It won’t help with transit delays or other local government announcements but the weather service stuff is available (via an AtProto <-> ActivityPub bridge if nothing else; it’s not like you interact with the posts so it’d be ideal for a bridge).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Make a bot that listens to those and posts them here.

[–] ayyy 4 points 2 hours ago

It’s behind a paywall and I’m not paying that Nazi.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago

"Something went wrong. Try Mastodon."

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Everyone strives for 5 9s, but musk aims for two 8s.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 35 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 minutes ago (2 children)

I don't know the 5 9s reference, but the two 8s is 88, a Nazi dog whistle for Heil Hitler, as H is the 8th letter of the alphabet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

Oh okay, thank you ☺️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago* (last edited 3 minutes ago)

5 9s means 99.999% uptime, which translates to a site will only be down for ~6 seconds per week. This is the golden standard for online services

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

I see what you did there....

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

God I hope there's some engineer somewhere at X quietly sabotaging all of their services.

Should plant a timed zip bomb on the servers that autoruns on reboot

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 minutes ago

Plug that random USB stick you found on the sidewalk directly into the server and open up Link_ParkFullAlbum-LimeWire.exe

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago

What can we do to keep it like this forever?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

I love that for them

[–] [email protected] 222 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The world had peace for 30 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

No. You see Twitter was keeping them contained. This is like the power going out at Jurassic Park.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 hours ago

Arkham Asylum grid failure

[–] [email protected] 146 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'll celebrate when no one considers this to be news.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 5 hours ago (9 children)

I still can't believe he nuked the Twitter brand. It was like the most valuable part of the platform. X is such a dumb, generic nothing name.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago

He is really really dumb person, so it is not surprising he does stupid stuff. Look at cybershit, tesla robot (driven by people remotely), anything he did last year... He is fucking dumb idiot.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

You are really surprised by a guy who wanted to name his car series S-E-X-Y and had a temper tantrum when model E was taken and he could not "buy" it.

[–] Imgonnatrythis 19 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

It's going to be so easy for him to turn that x into a swastika in a couple of years though. Its what's known in tech circles as IED "iterative evil design"

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Hopefully the next rebrand will be from X to rm -rf /.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 minutes ago

Or Bobby Droptables

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Make it permanent next time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Oh no.

Anyway…

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