• X, the former Twitter, has experienced a worldwide outage as of 12PM on Monday CAT.
  • This is likely the first major outage of the company since Musk took ownership in 2022.
  • The outage seems to have only lasted for about half an hour.
        • dekomote@lemmy.worldEnglish
          122·
          2 hours ago

          I was just talking to a friend who’s very anti-nazi (at least, that’s what he says), told him that by staying there, he’s feeding the nazis. He says that he’s the resistance working from within lol. People would tell themselves all kinds of stories for convenience.

            • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              6 minutes ago

              I mean, there’s no comparison. Punching Nazis is always cool, Twitter is just talking to them, which never is. You and fifty friends go on Twitter and dunk on Nazis all day and you’re still just at a table talking with the enemy. Take fifty friends to a Nazi bar and throw punches, you’ve just improved the neighbourhood.

      • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 hour ago

        I actually emailed my local National Weather Service station awhile back asking if they’d post on Mastodon and even offered them a BlueSky invite and they wrote back saying only Twitter and Facebook were allowed and they’d be everywhere if it was approved by higher ups.

        Someone made a BlueSky bot a few months ago for NWS notices and I’m pretty sure they covered every local one. I remember the person who made it asking people to request any missing stations. Not sure if there’s a Mastodon equivalent but you could use a bridge. It won’t help with transit delays or other local government announcements but the weather service stuff is available (via an AtProto <-> ActivityPub bridge if nothing else; it’s not like you interact with the posts so it’d be ideal for a bridge).

        • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          Or on Blue Sky or Mastadon

          Hell reach put to your reps and tell them that they should have a Blue Sky and Mastodon for if something like this happens in the future.

          Ain’t no better time than now due to the Twitter outage.

  • bfg9k@lemmy.worldEnglish
    322·
    3 hours ago

    God I hope there’s some engineer somewhere at X quietly sabotaging all of their services.

    Should plant a timed zip bomb on the servers that autoruns on reboot

    • Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      26·
      4 hours ago

      I assume we’re in a similar boat so let me assure you: no, you won’t - because we wouldn’t even realize it happened.

      Only after s few months one of us will recall this thread and be like “oh, yeah. Twitter. Seems really dead finally. Good.”

      And to be clear I expect they person to be you because my memory is awful.

  • robbinhood@lemmy.worldEnglish
    97·
    5 hours ago

    I still can’t believe he nuked the Twitter brand. It was like the most valuable part of the platform. X is such a dumb, generic nothing name.

    • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 hours ago

      He is really really dumb person, so it is not surprising he does stupid stuff. Look at cybershit, tesla robot (driven by people remotely), anything he did last year… He is fucking dumb idiot.

    • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
      7·
      2 hours ago

      You are really surprised by a guy who wanted to name his car series S-E-X-Y and had a temper tantrum when model E was taken and he could not “buy” it.

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      18·
      3 hours ago

      It’s going to be so easy for him to turn that x into a swastika in a couple of years though. Its what’s known in tech circles as IED “iterative evil design”

    • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
      10·
      3 hours ago

      I’m glad he did, now there is a clear line from when it was acceptable to when it wasn’t.

      The USA probably won’t rebrand when its a fully fascist state.

      • meco03211@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        4 hours ago

        I like referring to it as xitter, pronounced “shitter”. What were once tweets are now steaming piles of xit. Or someone taking/dropping a xit.