Mastodawn

PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.

Absolutely no offense meant, but maybe relying on Amazon (who are sort of antithetical to everything Signal stands for) for anything isn't the greatest of ideas?

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yawnbox Oct 20

@fedithom

Open Whisper Systems has a long history of being anti-decentralization

@Mer__edith

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XenGi ✅Oct 20

@yawnbox @fedithom @Mer__edith Why does signal then depend on a single centralized cloud provider?

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Meredith Whittaker Oct 20

@xengi @yawnbox @fedithom we don't.

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XenGi ✅Oct 20

@Mer__edith @yawnbox @fedithom then signal shouldn't be down just because AWS has a hiccup. Just speculating here, I know.

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Tim Severien

@xengi @yawnbox @fedithom Maybe the AWS outage reveals a bug in a failover system. Neither of us knows what Signal's infrastructure is like, so let's stop speculating.