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49 pointsstefcoetzee1y ago33 comments

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Good time to consider and try out alternatives!

Such as Bluesky

Is Bluesky good enough and dense enough if I block all political keywords? X is good enough for me after muting all political keywords.

There was a link recently to a site that lists all top links on Bluesky and overwhelmingly all were about US politics.

kalupa1y ago

It has great support for blocking yes. In fact, there are curated and/or crowdsourced block lists that one can subscribe to so you don’t have to spend as much time doing it yourself. I am sure there’s one that’s suitable for your needs but I don’t have any to recommend

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kawfey1y ago

or mastodon. or threads. or <anme your platform here>... I hate that the short-text social media world got so fragmented. Twitter was the one place i could go to say hi to my neighbors, complain to a company and get recompense, grow my hobbies with friends, ask almost any restaurant "are you open on $holiday?" and just watch the whole world breathe.

ta12431y ago

And nothing of value was lost

a12k1y ago

Well where else am I supposed to socialize with fellow cybertruck owners?

ta12431y ago

Fire station?

ta12431y ago

Looks like twitter is blocking isitdownrightnow based on the "this is down for 80 days"

ohgr1y ago

What microservice did Musk delete this time?

janmo1y ago

Probably fired the DDOS protection team

sebazzz1y ago

He will probably get fined by not reaching his fake news quota.

josefritzishere1y ago

Dark Storm has taken credit... at least that's what Newsweek says. https://www.newsweek.com/x-twitter-outage-dark-storm-live-up...

underseacables1y ago

Wow. They really did a number. Really destroyed everything. It took X like 30 minutes! to restore function.

k2_dev1y ago

Does anyone know yet, if this was really a cyberattack? And if so, how the hackers were able to pull this off? Was it a DDOS-Attack?

Havoc1y ago

I guess they did need that datacenter that musk decided to DIY remove after all

lokimedes1y ago

Government infrastructure under attack, Musk is demanding nuclear retaliation as we speak.

(Misinformation disclaimer :: Joke)

postepowanieadm1y ago

I'm not sure if you are joking or serious. Interesting times.

Clubber1y ago

Pavlov rang his bell to the comment section. :)

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numpad01y ago

this is minimum 6th dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322115

PKop1y ago

"The site has been unreachable for more than 80 days."

xkbarkar1y ago

Why are you downvoted? It is what the site says. What the hell has happened to HN?

Its not even a controversial comment. Da hell?

mehphp1y ago

I sense that change too. Comments are starting to feel too much like Reddit unfortunately.

kvetching1y ago

It is suffering from DDOS attack. People are already politicizing it trying to blame Iran.

jmondi1y ago

Definitely has nothing to do with axing the staff

seabird1y ago

The site has performed more or less the same after the staff cuts as it did before. I say this as somebody who has used it nearly daily for ten-ish years now. Most users I know have the same experience. Maybe you noticed something if you're parked on Twitter for hours at a time, but I try to limit my exposure to people that do that.

I get that Musk is a dipshit and that there are other problems with the site since the change of ownership, but the griping about stability seems to come from people that don't actually use it.

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theultdev1y ago

correct. because twitter 1.0 went down constantly.

and staff has been axed for awhile.

ddos happens, having a large staff isn't really relevant.

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Kkoala1y ago

Good time to consider and try out alternatives!

Such as Bluesky

__rito__1y ago

Is Bluesky good enough and dense enough if I block all political keywords? X is good enough for me after muting all political keywords.

There was a link recently to a site that lists all top links on Bluesky and overwhelmingly all were about US politics.

kalupa1y ago

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kawfey1y ago

ta12431y ago

And nothing of value was lost

a12k1y ago

Well where else am I supposed to socialize with fellow cybertruck owners?

ta12431y ago

Fire station?

ta12431y ago

Looks like twitter is blocking isitdownrightnow based on the "this is down for 80 days"

ohgr1y ago

What microservice did Musk delete this time?

janmo1y ago

Probably fired the DDOS protection team

sebazzz1y ago

He will probably get fined by not reaching his fake news quota.

josefritzishere1y ago

Dark Storm has taken credit... at least that's what Newsweek says. https://www.newsweek.com/x-twitter-outage-dark-storm-live-up...

underseacables1y ago

Wow. They really did a number. Really destroyed everything. It took X like 30 minutes! to restore function.

k2_dev1y ago

Does anyone know yet, if this was really a cyberattack? And if so, how the hackers were able to pull this off? Was it a DDOS-Attack?

Havoc1y ago

I guess they did need that datacenter that musk decided to DIY remove after all

lokimedes1y ago

Government infrastructure under attack, Musk is demanding nuclear retaliation as we speak.

(Misinformation disclaimer :: Joke)

postepowanieadm1y ago

I'm not sure if you are joking or serious. Interesting times.

Clubber1y ago

Pavlov rang his bell to the comment section. :)

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numpad01y ago

this is minimum 6th dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322115

PKop1y ago

"The site has been unreachable for more than 80 days."

xkbarkar1y ago

Why are you downvoted? It is what the site says. What the hell has happened to HN?

Its not even a controversial comment. Da hell?

mehphp1y ago

I sense that change too. Comments are starting to feel too much like Reddit unfortunately.

kvetching1y ago

It is suffering from DDOS attack. People are already politicizing it trying to blame Iran.

jmondi1y ago

Definitely has nothing to do with axing the staff

seabird1y ago

I get that Musk is a dipshit and that there are other problems with the site since the change of ownership, but the griping about stability seems to come from people that don't actually use it.

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theultdev1y ago

correct. because twitter 1.0 went down constantly.

and staff has been axed for awhile.

ddos happens, having a large staff isn't really relevant.

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