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  #2789782 5-Oct-2021 13:38
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No issues, just the exclamation mark.





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  #2790043 5-Oct-2021 16:51
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  #2790183 5-Oct-2021 18:23
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Dial111: To be fair, FB is pretty toxic and cancerous, it should be electronically nuked from existence.

 

 

To paraphrase a comment I saw elsewhere, if democracy is a person than Facebook is the cancer that's attacking it. It's already completely taken over the right-hand extremities, but all the other parts are in trouble as well.

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  #2790188 5-Oct-2021 18:31
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Signal.

 

 

The sole downside with Signal is that it's a multi-hundred-MB app that doesn't do much more than SMS, and whose functionality hasn't changed in years but that seems to need an update every few days.

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  #2790190 5-Oct-2021 18:33
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MaxineN:

Can now resolve FB in multiple places but it's still very broken.

 

 

So it's back to normal then?

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#2790191 5-Oct-2021 18:34
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neb:
freitasm:

Signal.



The sole downside with Signal is that it's a multi-hundred-MB app that doesn't do much more than SMS, and whose functionality hasn't changed in years but that seems to need an update every few days.


Plus it's a CIA surveillance tool. 🤔




 

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You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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  #2790198 5-Oct-2021 18:45
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neb:
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Can now resolve FB in multiple places but it's still very broken.

 

So it's back to normal then?

 

Unfortunately.





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  #2790217 5-Oct-2021 19:48
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Signal.



The sole downside with Signal is that it's a multi-hundred-MB app that doesn't do much more than SMS, and whose functionality hasn't changed in years but that seems to need an update every few days.


When phones have gigabytes of space, who cares what size the app is?

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  #2790227 5-Oct-2021 20:13
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Not just that but signal also has a literal anti brute attack (good for celebrite that will brick said brute forcing device on people who want to peek at your phone unauthorized) just by having it installed.

 

 

 

 





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  #2790229 5-Oct-2021 20:17
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dfnt: When phones have gigabytes of space, who cares what size the app is?

 

 

And this is why you run out of space for apps and photos on a phone that started out with gigabytes of space.

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  #2790375 6-Oct-2021 08:56
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freitasm:

 

The explanation, which matches what we knew: More details about the October 4 outage - Facebook Engineering (fb.com)

 

 

I'll be a skeptic on this one and come out and say this isn't the full story.





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'I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. Facebook and Instagram are down'

 

Sorry if thats on one of the previous pages, I'm not interested in FB enough to check.

 

I stole that from a webpage about the UK Royal Navy, of all places...





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