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Andrew Bone

I think it's highlighted how often I passively open Facebook on my phone but also how little I usually take in when scrolling.

I've felt the whatsapp outage slightly more as that's my default messaging app but it's not hard to fall back to SMS.

I find it strange that all 3 services seem to have a single point of failure.

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Ben Halpern

I find it strange that all 3 services seem to have a single point of failure.

Kind of feels like the Internet as a whole is lacking in this regard. Other systems may or may not be more robust, but there just isn't as much diversity as there used to be in the world wide web.

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Andrew Bone

I guess the next step would be a peer to peer DNS but that feels like a headache waiting to happen