It might seem obvious, but I'd like to highlight that this illustrates another benefit of a distributed system like Mastodon. Even if one of the Mastodon servers goes down, the others will continue to function.
The value in twitter/youtube/IG/twitch etc is in the current social network/users, not the tech. That's why its insanely hard to create new social networks.
Yes...all my timelines are gone. Cannot see anyone else timeliness. Treating me like a new user with a welcome message to set up my account. Also, the text as well as the like button, RT has shrunk and is very tiny. Only thing working is "Spaces"
When I was a kid (Nat Nanny)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Nanny] was totally and completely lame, but the whole millennial generation grew up to adore content moderation. A strange authoritarian impulse.
Pre-acquisition the unwritten rule on Twitter was you could always do (and could never do) anything that aligned with the board and the equity holders. The rules that existed were theirs.
It seems increasingly the norm not to acknowledge any failure, but to simply fail to operate without admitting anything is wrong. Institutionally as well as technologically.
Are people in the EU actually even trying it? I might've been interested in trying it when it launched in the US/UK/Japan when everyone was making their "I'm now on Threads" posts, but now it seems pretty self-evident no one was actually moving there.
Neither is the time of year. The few remaining staff will be recovering from Xmas parties just before the long Christmas weekend if not already on holidays.
Imagine working for Twitter ops and getting a phone call from angry Elon at your Xmas party, with a festive hat on, enjoying your beer, and then having to tell everybody you have to leave for the office now at 11 pm.
The most interesting thing is that Elon is completely silenced when X/Twitter is down. He has no other social media accounts to communicate through. Anyone got his number?
I wonder if we'll get some kind of clarification on what happened. Those posts are always fun to read as you get to see what goes wrong on big software with millions of users!
It should be back working soon, i hope. Hopefully no data is lost.
I mean, you’ll get an Elon tweet along the lines of “Servers are woke”, and you’ll like it. I don’t think Musk companies have the sort of culture that produces detailed RCAs.
Is anyone tracking the number of downtimes / partial outages (like all outgoing links getting broken) ever since Elon decided to fire most of the staff? Very curious to see if there's actually been a noticeable uptick.
Well it's partially up, meaning you can see 'the site' but my posts, replies, and evidently at least some other people's posts and replies are completely missing.
Even people who have paid for the service evidently.
This kind of thing in a hypermedia application sure is problematic, because for example I have made lots of articles out on other services with embeds of tweets in those articles when I guess it would be more trustworthy to take screenshots.
Huh, maybe some essential people to keep this kind of thing from happening were recently let go.
I suppose there will be a lot of people making backups of their content now.
If there was someone clever in control there they would add a feature that it would only give you the backup since your last backup (with notice of course) and you would have to actually request a FULL backup that would probably save the servers a lot of work in the coming weeks. But there seems to be an ongoing narrative that there isn't someone clever in control there.
