Post AzOhlTHfscP03nzYoK by MartinaNeumayer@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AzOcxfm4ldjcVED7ke by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-20T09:29:57Z
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Well, that’s a first.#Signal #SignalDown
(DIR) Post #AzOd76R30pVjnPs5h2 by TashTaylor@sauropods.win
2025-10-20T09:30:55Z
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@aral That explains the constant 'You May Have New Messages'
(DIR) Post #AzOdD69sxEoofuhdaa by simonzerafa@infosec.exchange
2025-10-20T09:31:04Z
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@aral AWS down 😟
(DIR) Post #AzOdF16SijmvZl15H6 by jones@todon.nl
2025-10-20T09:31:03Z
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@aral it's because of the current AWS outage, but it also means @signalapp should go for a more distributed architecture.
(DIR) Post #AzOdOLxGZ1SoquAPpI by hyde@lazybear.social
2025-10-20T09:31:41Z
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@aral Thanks to #AWS 😔
(DIR) Post #AzOdX2VEFwIj82C8SO by tmoran@fosstodon.org
2025-10-20T09:33:09Z
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@aral AWS has an outage which is affecting a lot of other services:https://downdetector.ie/
(DIR) Post #AzOdgAFWp637lFCaZ6 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-20T09:35:11Z
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@dave I do. And I look forward to using Matrix once I’ve finished my PhD in it ;)
(DIR) Post #AzOdq4hmI9TTSf8oqG by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-20T09:38:26Z
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@tmoran Ah. So if anyone wants to take down Signal, they just give Bezos a call. Good to know *sigh* (thanks, appreciate the heads up)
(DIR) Post #AzOeoO9195ub7tdru4 by tmoran@fosstodon.org
2025-10-20T09:48:38Z
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@aral :) you can add half the internet to that list!
(DIR) Post #AzOfba0HqHBW630xk0 by MartinaNeumayer@mastodon.social
2025-10-20T09:59:23Z
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@aral Try a fork called "Molly" from molly.im This one should be working fine.
(DIR) Post #AzOgB5QH1Cldg16IK0 by ju@nugole.it
2025-10-20T10:03:16Z
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Signal apparently depends from Amazon Web Services, which is currently down.https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5y8k7k6v1rt?post=asset%3Ab6064c32-9fa8-4572-bd5d-0ee48add72b9#post
(DIR) Post #AzOgB6v9Rt3qK4YT5c by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-20T10:05:49Z
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@ju Clearly not affecting S3 or a sizeable portion of the fediverse would be having issues with media too.
(DIR) Post #AzOgPa6Vk884t3lhpY by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-20T10:08:31Z
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@MartinaNeumayer Afaik, they use the same network (and I don’t use Android) but thanks for the heads up :)
(DIR) Post #AzOhCSJNVInKuP5lYW by MartinaNeumayer@mastodon.social
2025-10-20T10:17:19Z
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@aral By default yes, but there is an option in settings to change it as the user wish. Molly is a FOSS type of fork without all the proprietary trash included, like google services, closed blobs etc. The only one "downside" is the need to set up some external notifications service, because of the lack of google's. But that's not some hard thing to do. There are plenty of such, and much more privacy friendly, actually available. For other systems there are also foss variants of original Signal.
(DIR) Post #AzOhMQBGHVVVCC30hk by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-20T10:18:49Z
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@MartinaNeumayer I’ll definitely take a closer look at it, thanks Martina :)
(DIR) Post #AzOhlTHfscP03nzYoK by MartinaNeumayer@mastodon.social
2025-10-20T10:23:31Z
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@aral You're welcome. This option should be somewhere under "censorship bypass". As my hubby told me already. I don't use Signal myself, but he is and said that Molly is working well, as he checked today morning. So, looks like they are able to use different backends from only the aws ones.