With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to repost this old strip

@designthinkingcomic

Your timing is impeccable.

I just finished muttering to my long-suffering wife, "Remember when we designed the Internet to be distributed, so that this sort of thing wouldn't happen?"

It really is bloody frustrating to this ancient network engineer (pre-Internet).

@PeterLG @designthinkingcomic

Heh... I made a similar comment today to someone bitching about reddit being down. I suggested lemmy. The solution to a lot of problems is *right there*, but nobody's willing to sacrifice anything to make the future better.

Mastodon was probably first out of the gate for twitter refugees. Everyone said 'Fuck that shit. Gimme some more of that centralized corporate platform!'

It amazes me we progressed beyond fire...