John Scalzi: Aahhhh, there it is www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/240...

Aahhhh, there it is www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/240...

Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are all downwww.theverge.com Meta’s network is down — except for Whatsapp.

As a person who works hard to not put all his publicity eggs in one basket, this has reminded me of how many of my eggs are technically in one basket

They spent a decade working really hard to make sure you only had one basket

It's the SSO server that's down. So don't be surprised if anything you use Facebook to log into also doesn't work.

Part of the answer is to own your own basket, as you well know.

Woe the basket stores they burned down when that memo was misunderstood by those interns.

I would rail against "Big Basket," but hey, I love porn.

Spoiled broken glass jar mayonnaise picnic basket?

I never thought anyone could kill my social media boner, but here we re.

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Yeah, so many 'individual hosting' services are just Amazon or Google under the hood. This comes up pretty often when people talk about making Ao3 clones, plenty of fiction is legal but 'icky' and being reliant on Amazon or Google to be cool with it is, uh...

My baskets are in one basket

You know what the man said: Put all your eggs in one basket then watch that basket!

It's a basket with a false bottom

😬 And so many of the baskets are falling apart these days

Mmm free eggs

I increasingly have no basket at all, and just carry as many eggs as I can in my little hands and stuffed into one zippered pocket, hoping nobody jostles me on the subway. Not ideal.

Same. When IG, threads, and FB are the same platform…

Crap, I forgot to put eggs in my basket when I went grocery shopping last weekend.

All my baskets are in one exit

Yep

Zuck is staring at a screen and saying, "PC Load Letter? WTF?"

Thank you for posting this, I was starting to get worried. I don't have nearly as much interaction here or on X as on Facebook, and yes, I admit, social media addiction is a real thing.

Seems like a good time for a reminder that if you're going to be online, making sure you own your own website is REALLY a good way to start!

Why? Most people don't need their own website and social media doesn't serve the same purpose as a personal website anyway. -D.

Back in the days of blogs, that was social media.

I assumed it might be an attack on Super Tuesday, as a trial for November. Because my brain now lives in the darkest timeline, apparently.

They should have attacked something of value 😋

My mind too lives there. I'll bring coffee.

I thought I’d been hacked!

I have no Meta, but I must scream.

This is genius.

Thank you! *bows*

I got kicked out in a way that made me think I was hacked. So this is a relief. Still, missing all of my AI thirst trap spams and honey-pot rage-share stuff :(

Meta's Status page for Facebook logins metastatus.com/facebook-login

Not inspiring confidence

We don't realize how much we depend on it until we don't have it, alas.

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This explains the Meta outage

I thought it was just me. In this case misery actually does love company. Meta screwed me last year when I was in Europe. Took weeks to sort. They corresponded in French for weeks!

I've just been refreshing the .rss feed, which loads much faster. I think Chad is right - just an adblock issue on the main. metastatus.com/outage-event...

I noticed that my adblocker was blocking most of the info on that page. :D

I re-enabled my ad blocker and my Privacy Badger just to test. Still couldn't get the page to load. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I guess you could say the threads have started unraveling. Maybe someone took a thread ripper to it. Yes, sew 😂

We're all waiting for an intern to complete their epic quest to the mall cave and recover the sacred router to restore the network and ascend to the position of CEO.

Somewhat it confort me, I believe it was me. Well still not good.

I guess deleting the old Oculus accounts went smoothly.

My searing hatred and avoidance of Zuck pays off yet again!

🤜🤛

It says something terrible about Meta that my immediate thought was that I'd been hacked rather than it being down for everyone.

Same for 90% of us from the comments here. LOL. I was looking for info because it was so strange to be logged out.

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