• 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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      8 days ago

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

    • Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      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.

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    7 days ago

    Fascists value compliance and ideological fervor over competency, so naturally all fascist led faction experience a competency crisis sooner or later.May this happen more often.

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    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.

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      7 days ago

      Yeah, I really could not understand the motivation behind that. Why throw away such a valuable brand? I mean the name was even a clever play on words that also gave them a cute bird icon/mascot.

      “Twitter”, with that bird logo is just a slam dunk, that’s solid gold branding… It’s insane to randomly “go a different direction” and then land at “X”. If I was their brand coordinator or director of marketing when they made that change, I’d resign then and there.

      Changing their name to “X” was essentially lighting 20% of their assets on fire on day 1.

      • meco03211@lemmy.world
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        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.

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      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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          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.

            • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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              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.

      • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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        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).

        • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          Or on Blue Sky or Mastadon

          Hell reach put to your reps and tell them that they should have a Blue Sky and Mastodon for if something like this happens in the future.

          Ain’t no better time than now due to the Twitter outage.

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    7 days 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?