Aaron Parecki

JUST IN - Facebook employees reportedly can't enter buildings to evaluate the Internet outage because their door access badges weren’t working (NYT)

.@Facebook & @instagram

At 15:40 BGP started learning at a geometric rate, at 15:52 UTC it became sentient. At 15:54, thinking that Asimov's 3 laws of robotics sounded like a decent idea, BGPnet shut dowm Facebook.

You know what's not down? My #homepage, my #email , and my #xmpp messaging through my own server.

So instead of waiting for #facebookdown #instagramdisabled #whatsappdown and #gmaildown to come back let's rebuild the Old Internet!

#decentralize #indieweb

What one can do right now: Build ones indie web presence, bringing ones blog/site closer to become a full fledged Facebook replacement https://indieweb.org

I’m not gonna lecture anybody. I’m just going to say the social media outages are a great - if accidental - opportunity to think about where else you might set up your platform and/or to consider other options like a newsletter or website you control outright.

Every time there’s been a hot new platform - Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram - this happens.

"Dogfooding", but you're a dog, and the food is made of other dogs.

there are some amazing decorations on this cake, like "they have a backup IRC chat server to use in case Messenger is down, but the backup IRC is also hosted on http://facebook.com so it's also down"

"facebook is down" is one thing but "facebook is down and they can't fix it because they locked themselves out of the house and they can't talk to each other because facebook is down" is funnier than any joke you could write

Status meeting:
"We need to cut back on advertising"

Later that Monday:
"Goddammit, we didn't mean you BGP team"

It's fine for most people who are just trying to share some photos with friends if a social network is down for a day (or a week!). But if you're serious about running a business or a mission, a cause or campaign, you don't build on rented land.

Facebook being down has had a dramatic negative impact on my productivity, because there is comedy gold here on Twitter and in private chats that I just don't want to miss out on.

Today is a good day to remind you of a website first strategy for your content. If your business is only on a FB or IG site, today is probably a bad day for you. #indieweb #onlineautonomy

Hasn't anyone at Facebook watched Battlestar Galactica?

Was just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of outage because their badges weren’t working to access doors.

You seem surprised…

PSA: As of today, Australia has 5 time zones once again. Apologies in advance to our overseas friends trying to make sense of this temporal anarchy.

Pour one out for every person whose job is it to explain what BGP is and how it works today.

Hear me out - what if we just leave Facebook dead and just like, null route them globally while they’re locked out of their offices and can’t see us?