Post AzPFSvA5P8IZScliTY by festal@tldr.nettime.org
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(DIR) Post #AzPFSvA5P8IZScliTY by festal@tldr.nettime.org
2025-10-20T08:14:21Z
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OK. #signal is down. And it seems to be an issue with Amazon Web Services. Not the end of the world, but a reminder that a centralized cloud is a single point of failure. https://aboutsignal.com/news/outage-at-signal-and-several-other-online-services/
(DIR) Post #AzPFSvvaYWIPpwzeW8 by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-10-20T16:41:57Z
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@festal Not even sufficiently distributed? Garbage service.
(DIR) Post #AzPFggmBgac6to9gn2 by kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town
2025-10-20T08:34:31Z
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@festal The beginnings of the internet were a distributed computer network that could survive a nuclear war.Now it's back to the fragility of the highly centralized systems that preceded it.What a rotten shame.
(DIR) Post #AzPFghdiTZQpZpCRE0 by dan@social.coop
2025-10-20T10:09:11Z
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@kilroy_was_here @festal yes, and regarding signal centralization is baked into their foundation: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
(DIR) Post #AzPFgiJBzMbneSbYsC by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-10-20T16:44:24Z
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@dan @kilroy_was_here @festal Yeah but in signals case they were working with a centralized thing to begin with. I do not know if that is sufficient. But also it's us with all OUR eggs in the signal basket. It's not cannot and will not be a single solution to all problems.
(DIR) Post #AzPIsagQSsclL7pLJQ by nikolay@infosec.exchange
2025-10-20T17:20:13Z
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@tomjennings @festal I read that a lot of downtime was the result of companies not using multiple availability zones and what not. Personally, I always liked Telegram better, as it was always the fastest, but I would only use it if it were decentralized/federated now. I did happen to host my own (unofficial) instance once.