Humorously, the hashtag “#DeleteFacebook” is also trending on Twitter as the company battles continued pushback against the effects its platforms have on younger users

Nice

🤞

Allah is not enough. You need the power of friendship with all gods.

sadly your prayers haven’t been answered (yet) :(

Everyone should use FOSS alternatives, but lets not pretend Signal or Matrix don’t go down as well for example. If you mean federated, then that’s another story.

People need to use federated/decentralized alternatives.

I really hope that this will lead some developing countries where Facebook practically is the internet to pivot hard to other options. In the west Facebook is dying anyways, so that would be a very welcome development.

Agree. And that image is really cool btw

😂

I’ll be happier

Well, looks more like some security snafu after all:

Update, 6:16 p.m. ET: A trusted source who spoke with a person on the recovery effort at Facebook was told the outage was caused by a routine BGP update gone wrong. The source explained that the errant update blocked Facebook employees — the majority of whom are working remotely — from reverting the changes. Meanwhile, those with physical access to Facebook’s buildings couldn’t access Facebook’s internal tools because those were all tied to the company’s stranded domains.

It seems that the root of Facebook’s problem is that someone at FB had deleted their BGP tables from the Internet.

And they couldn’t get access to reconfigure their BGPs because FB hosts their own DNS servers.

Basically, they had wiped themselves from the Internet.