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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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[–] homesweethomeMrL 113 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

Who the fuck is still on that nazi shithole

[–] TheRedSpade 84 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
[–] gigglybastard 43 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Remember kids, only nazis support nazis.

[–] dekomote 18 points 22 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.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 12 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 17 points 20 hours 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.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

Even the porn creators and erotic artists have left.

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

My government emergency alerts :(

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 17 points 21 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).

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[–] [email protected] 211 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago

I assume we're in a similar boat so let me assure you: no, you won't - because we wouldn't even realize it happened.

Only after s few months one of us will recall this thread and be like "oh, yeah. Twitter. Seems really dead finally. Good."

And to be clear I expect they person to be you because my memory is awful.

[–] gyll 104 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

If we’re lucky it’s forever.

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[–] robbinhood 149 points 1 day ago (11 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] 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well, now you can tweet wherever you like and don't have to invent a silly new verb for every new platform.

[–] meco03211 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like referring to it as xitter, pronounced "shitter". What were once tweets are now steaming piles of xit. Or someone taking/dropping a xit.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 23 hours ago
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 23 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] 29 points 19 hours ago (3 children)
  • 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.

[–] cmrn 15 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah I seem to remember quite a few “oh so that’s what that wire does” situations that unfolded already.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (7 children)

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] 17 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The legal difference would be intent; are you trying to access the website, or are you trying to bog it down? Proving intent can of course be difficult, but OTOH I don't know how much longer American courts are going to care about silly things like proof

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[–] Melvin_Ferd 8 points 19 hours ago

No, don't ever organize like this. We are on the left. We are smart and we are righteous. We do not plan and coordinate and work together in this behavior. This would be sneaky and take social skills and foresight. No we need to gather in downtown Chicago with signs and megaphones. Protest in the streets. Only protest. We're not animals like trumpets who do this stuff and get away with it and never let up. They don't know the power of chaining themselves to a fence. They don't get the rush and mighty feeling when the crowd boos you and tells you to go home and throws things at you. No they don't understand. They don't understand we do it for them.

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[–] Jumpingspiderman 12 points 18 hours ago

Wonderful! May it stay that way forever.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

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

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[–] bfg9k 36 points 23 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

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago

And nothing was lost.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago

Reddit was like this, even way before the enshittification.

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

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer 34 points 1 day ago

Now this is the kind of X news I'm okay with reading.

Although I can only imagine what this means for the US since Musk is treating the government like one of his businesses.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 21 hours ago

"Something went wrong. Try Mastodon."

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

And nothing of value was lost.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 21 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

oh no, anyways . . .

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