Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp all go down in major outage

[SaltyFanta]

Let's hope it never returns.

 

[Online Fossil]

Now commencing prayer circle that they do Twitter next

 

[melty]

As correct as you probably are, I’m gonna pray you’re wrong because the alternative is funny as hell.

I hope that I am wrong too.

 

[Billy Beer]

if facebook accounts have been hacked and sold, what are the chances that these emial addresses/passwords will be able to be used to get in to other sites?

Didn't something similar happen a few years ago when people hacked the NSA, or something, by using passwords they got in a hotmail hack?

I can't remember the full details.

 

[Full Race Replay]

I can't help but be sad thinking about how not only have people not become more aware of things like internet protocols and how to run their own services as computer became easier to use in the last few decades, but even more tech-savy people have grown accustomed to relying on online services like google and facebook without any sort of worry about what will happen when those services go offline. Just now, my professor sent me a google drive link for class and I was thinking about how easy it would be to set up a FTP server to handle document sharing instead of relying on closed source services that we don't have any control over. And no one will learn anything from this, run their own forums, move to protocol chats instead of discord or slack...just wait for the service to come back online and wait around until it happens again.

 

[cuddle striker]

God let this be true. If TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp all went down at once, I would be a very happy man. Im still glad this happened, but TikTok would just add to my happiness.

Panama papers drop, social media cuts out.

tiktok still dancing

 

[Pringles Can]

I could be wrong but aren't some people saying that Gmail's gone down as well?

As far as I can tell google is okay. I can still get on youtube and crap. Its just the three so far that are 100% confirmed.

 

[Wikipedia]

This is a miracle, this has reignited my hope in Jesus and in humanity I hope Zuckerberg is pissing and shitting while throwing a lizard temper tantrum

 

[Marissa Moira]

You ever think that many people wanted the Library of Alexandria to be burned down?

 

[Creep3r]

If only they’d all just stay down forever.

If only Twitter could join them. Then maybe we'd be a quarter of a way back to normalcy.

Anyway I'm really enjoying seeing so many boomers and zoomers irl freaking out over this, especially the coomers.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

For the record I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if it was a chinese spook that infiltrated the building and did something manually either.

 

[An Ghost]

F I V E B I L L I O N



in sha’allah let it be true

5 billion, so maybe 1 billion real people and 4 billion spam bots / fake accounts.

Grain of salt info: Peter Rosenberg on The Michael Kay Show said someone, who is a blue check and pretty reliable, texted him and the rumor is routing code got deleted (think that's what was said).

EDIT: OK found what he referenced:

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Step one of getting hacked is to unplug all your shit to keep it from getting hacked. This isn't a suicide, it's a tactical withdrawal.

 

[DejaThoris]

I want radio based local mesh nets and piracy via trading USB sticks of hentai and I want it now NOW NOW NOW

You and me both, if I had the cash for the equipment I would totally set up a packet radio BBS.

Also I dont get all the people saying facebook is "deleted" just because the routing tables or whatever are gone. The data that is "Facebook" surely still exists on racks of storage arrays in data centers or whatever.

 

[Gar For Archer]

Cool, can we do Reddit and Twitter next?

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SNEED

Isn’t that the complete opposite? That everything’s still there, but nobody knows how to get to it? Like, sure it’s really bad for FB, but it’s not like it’s GONE.

 

[Hitman One]

what are the chances that these emial addresses/passwords will be able to be used to get in to other sites?

Six gorillion percent. Very few people use good passwords and even fewer use things like two-factor-authentication unless they are forced to.

 

[Govt. Shitposting Machine]

I could be wrong but aren't some people saying that Gmail's gone down as well?

Haven't heard of that, but I've heard other people say Twitter is down for them. It would line up with the rumors of it being a DNS issue though if they're all using the same one but iunno enough about dns and routing stuff so take it with a grain of salt just be happy it's all crumbling down

 

[Terrifik]

https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1445124014817652736

 

[Inebriated Raccoon]

Lol, didn’t Facebook acquire both Instagram and WhatsApp and was planning on integrating them with Facebook?

Lol, so, I imagine that if Facebook gets wrecked, so will the other two.

 

[5t3n0g0ph3r]

Shame Twitter was not taken down with them.

 

[Margo Martindale]

Doubt its malicious, from what i understand the networking team there may have pushed out a patch which was bad, and said patch also ended up locking them out of any way to manage the networking hardware remotely. Which means only the pajeets in the data centers with physical access to the hardware are able to fix it.

Still though, this is so fun to watch, what a great day to see a cancer of the internet offline for so long. Facebook employees and investors are absolutely seething right now. I hope these platforms being offline for so long wakes up some people to how much time they spend on this shit and that living without it isnt so bad